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Diarrhoea breaks out in city

500 infected in 24 hrs

Alpha Arzu
Outbreak of diarrhoea is taking an alarming turn in some areas of the city, including Badda, Gulshan and Mirpur as about 500 people were infected with the waterborne disease in last 24 hours ending yesterday evening.
Diarrhoea has broken out in the city due to scarcity of pure drinking water, scientists at ICDDR.B toldThe Daily Star.
On Sunday, a total of 488 diarrhoea patients were admitted to the 1CDDR.B hospital at Mohakhali. The doctors of the hospital suspected that the number of patients may increase today.
Generally a large number of patients come from the city's Badda, Mirpur and Gulshan area. But earlier we did not find such outbreak in this season, said Dr Azaharul Islam Khan, head of the short stay unitof ICDDR.B.
More than 100 patients come from a slum near Narda Bazar of Badda, said the ICDDR.B physicians, adding that children are the most sufferer of the outbreak.
Dr Islam also said the ICDDR.B has sent a team of scientists to the affected areas of the city to find out the cause behind the sudden outbreak of diarrhea. "The team will submit its laboratory report tomorrow," said the senior scientist of ICDDR.B.
"Earlier we did not get huge number of patients in the months of November, December and January but it looks different this year," Dr Islam said.
Previous year, about 250 patients were treated each day while the number of patients has increased this year, the doctors said.
On duty doctors at ICDDR.B also said slum dwellers in the city are the main victims of the scarcity of pure water. Its clinical science division scientist Dr Shahdat Hossain said, scarcity of water unhealthy^ errtrtrdnment Ima -lack of maintaining personal hygiene are blamed for the outbreak of diarrhoea in urban slums.
Diarrhoea is a tropical waterborne disease, which weakens the body system due to dehydration. Doctors advise patients to take enough pure water to prevent the disease.
Usually, diarrhoea breaks out alarmingly in the country twice each year-before the advent of monsoon (from April to June) and in postmonsoon period (from August to October).
According to the control room of the Directorate General of Health Services, 64,621 diarrhoea-affected people had been treated in hospitals last month and 24 of them died.
At least 88 have died of diarrhoea disease while 4,34,013 have been affected since January 1 this year.