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Diarrhoea in Chuadanga

500 admitted to hospital within a span of 72 hrs

Our Correspondent, Kushita
Diarrhoea situation has all of a sudden taken an alarming turn in Chuadanga district as around 500 people have been admitted to the Sadar Hospital in three days since Saturday.
Sources at the 100-bed Sadar Hospital said 120 patients took admission on Saturday, 178 on Sunday and 185 yesterday.
Most of the patients were from Baganpara, Masjidpara, Majherpara, Jintolapara, Islampara and other areas of Chuadanga town.
Doctors suspected that consumption of contaminated water supplied by the Chuadanga municipality authorities as the main reason behind the sudden outbreak of the disease.
Hospital authorities were struggling to cope with the situation as they had no capacity to treat such a big number of patients at a time.
A patient from Majhepara area told this correspondent yesterday that he had been receiving treatment at the hospital for the last two days.
However, his condition was yet to improve much.
Several other patients said they were affected by the water-borne disease after drinking contaminated water supplied by the municipality authorities.
We were getting bad odour from the water and asked a local councillor to look into the matter but he did not pay heed to our complaint, said Jharna Rani of Baganpara area.
The district health authorities meantime brought doctors and nurses from three upazila health complexes to the Sadar Hospital to cope with the situation.
Meanwhile, holidays of all officers and staff of the health department in the district have also been cancelled, said Azizur Rahman, Civil Surgeon (CS) of the district.
"Municipality authorities should take an immediate step to test their supplied water" the CSsaid.
Meanwhile, people of different areas have stopped using the water supplied by the municipality.
Municipality Mayor Rezaul Islam Joardar said they have already collected water samples from diarrhoea affected areas for laboratory test.
We are also distributing oral saline and water purifying tablets to control the diarrhoea outbreak, he added.