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Unidentified disease claims one; scores ill
A woman has died and at least 60 others have been taken ill due to an unidentified disease in Puthauttarganga Rural Municipality in East Rukum in the past one week.A woman has died and at least 60 others have been taken ill due to an unidentified disease in Puthauttarganga Rural Municipality in East Rukum in the past one week.
Sur Bahadur Roka, the ward chairman of Puthauttarganga-9, said on Monday that Sannai BK, a local woman, died for want of treatment while scores of people in seven settlements of the area have been affected by the disease yet to be diagnosed by the health authority.
According to Roka, the patients have been suffering from symptoms like headache, stomach-ache and vomiting bouts.
Locals said that health workers have yet to reach the affected areas to identify the disease and treat the patients.
Meanwhile, Chief District Officer Bhupendra Sapkota has said that the District Public Health Office is making preparations to deploy health workers to the disease-hit areas with medicines.
He assured that the health workers will soon reach the affected settlements and treat the patients.