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900 suffering from the disease

Diarrhoea leaves 27 dead in Jessore, Faridpur

From Our Correspondent
JESSfORE, May 9 : Diarrhoea has so far claimed 17 lives and attacked over 800 people tn eight upazllas of the district during last one month.
Out of the total, two persons have died In Sadar uap-zila, two in Jhlkargacha, ae-ven in Sarsha, one in Monlr-ampur. one in Baghe-rpara. one in Chowgacha. two tn local pourashava area and one in Obhainagar upazllas during the period.
The disease has attacked 64/ In Sadar upazila. 65 In Jhlkargacha, 147 in Sarsha, 20 in Chowgacha. 81 In Monir-ampur. 62 in Keshabpur. 151 in Bagherpara and 28 in Obhainagar. Another 183 have been attacked by the disease in the pourashava area.
In order to combat the disease, 74 medical teams have been set up who are working In the affected areas of the dis trlct. A mobile team has also
been formed to gearup the activities in the affected areas. But the supply of oral saline is still inadequate to the Increasing demand.
When contacted, the District Health Office informed this correspondent that they are aware of the matter and taking altout efforts to combat the disease. The continuous drought, scarcity of pure drinking water and taking of adulterated foodstuff were the main reasons behind the outbreak of diarrhoea in the area, the source added.
Faridpur
Our correspondent from Faridpur reports : Ten people Including six children have died of diarrhoea and over 100 have been attacked by the disease In four unions of Alp-hadanga upazila of the district during the last 15 days.
Fourteen medical teams
have been working in the affected areas and requisite quantity of anti-diarrhoeal medicines have been supplied to the affected areas, an official source informed.
Some local people Informed this correspondent that a large number of diarrhoea-hit people are coming to the health complex but they are going back without treatment for’ want of requisite medicines.
The affected unions are Bana, Togorbandh, Pachurfa and Gopal pur.
The persons who died of diarrhoea were Identified as Sakina (3), Shaju (5) of Bona union, Ibrahim (2) of Bhatpara. Urmi (2) of Dhaljuri village under Pachuria union, Laily (5) and Kamru) (25) Uttarchar Narayanpur, Nllu (27) of Panail village. Golam Nabi (70) of Togorbandh. Rozina (10) and Bablu (20) of village Chandra under Copalpur union.