Save lives of people

The Himalayan Times

18 January 2018

Save lives of people

Every year in the remote hilly districts, local people, especially elderly and children, used to heavily suffer from natural calamities, water borne diseases, seasonal communicable and non-communicable diseases. Likewise, people in the Tarai districts terribly suffer from cold waves and monsoon floods. Some of them even lose their lives due to lack of awareness, late arrival of state services and irresponsible acts of concerned local government machinery. The common people would not have to suffer so much and not even lose their lives had the government and its concerned authorities acted seriously on time.

In Jajarkot, 14 people have already lost their lives due to outbreak of viral fever for the last three weeks. Malnourished children and elderly people have been affected the most. Earlier, a team of health workers dispatched from the Ministry of Health had reached the affected areas two weeks ago and claimed that the viral fever would be brought under control in a few days. But, it seems that the situation is becoming worse. As reported, more people will die if the state machinery does not become serious enough to control this viral outbreak. “Viral fever still out of control in Jajarkot” (THT, January 16, Page 6).

It seems that the district based hospital; local level health service delivery outlets and other social service organizations have to collectively work to raise awareness among the people about the cause of the seasonal outbreak of diseases and taking necessary precautions in need of the hour.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharjgunj

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