20,000 attacked with chicken pox in Rangpur

Sources at the Civil Surgeon's office put the number at about 20,000. Patients are being given outdoor treatment at eight upzila health complexes, they said.

Besides the health complexes, patients, mostly children, are also going to private clinics and doctors in large numbers.

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Dr Mofizul Islam Mantu, a child specialist at Rangpur, said about 18 per cent child patients who came to him for treatment in last seven days were attacked with chicken pox.

Chicken box usually breaks out in April-May. But the incidence of attack is more since the beginning of the season this year, he said.

Several private practitioners told The Daily Star that most of the patients are children. As the disease has no quick treatment, they suggest patients to remain isolated from others so that the germ can not spread and attack others.

A health inspector of Rangpur Pourashava said mosquito menace is the main cause of rapid spread of chicken pox germ.