70 More Admitted to Pabna Hospital

Many contact diarrhoea afresh

11 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Pabna

Seventy more new patients were admitted to the Diarrhoea Ward of Pabna General Hospital from Saturday night to yesterday noon. Eighty diarrhoea patients were admitted there during the previous 24 hours. Along with necessary steps for treatment of the affected people, the district health department has started awareness campaign to prevent the disease, Dr Dipak Kumar, deputy civil surgeon of Pabna, said yesterday. “Studying case history of the patients, we are yet to be clear about the cause of the sudden outbreak of the disease. We will ask the director general's office to send a specialised team to the district to identify the cause,” he said. Some of the diarrhoea patients who were earlier released after treatment, returned to the hospital as they contacted the disease again, hospital sources said. Meanwhile, several diarrhoea patients in the hospital said they are suffering due to inadequate supply of intravenous (IV) saline and other medicines. Over one thousand people have been affected with diarrhoea in Pabna Sadar upazila during the last 15 days while three people died of the disease in last three days, sources said. To tackle the situation, the district health department has cancelled all kinds of leave for its staff including doctors and health assistants while several teams have started door-to-door visit to monitor the situation, health officials said. The upazila administration has started drives by a special mobile court to destroy spurious food items from Pabna markets, said Pabna Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Debashish Nag.