Two diarrhoea patients died on Sunday night, raising the number of diarrhoeal deaths to six in a week, while 111 more people were admitted to Pabna General Hospital and Pabna Sadar Upazila Health Complex in 24 hours till yesterday afternoon.
A specialised team will start work in Pabna from today to find out the nature and cause of the disease, district health officials said.
Nonihatwari (Dumka), Oct. 6: The death of a 25-year-old woman in Nonihatwari under Jama block this morning has triggered panic of a possible diarrhoea outbreak in the area.
Lilabati Kumari could not be taken to Sadar hospital and she died without treatment. But Dumka civil surgeon S.N. Jha was unaware of the death.
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Till Friday, it preyed on 80. Within 72 hours, the count has jumped to 400.
Diarrhoea, which reared its head in Potka, East Singhbhum, last week is stalking as many as 15 villages in the block, where at least 100 have been hospitalised.
Unconfirmed reports say six villagers have already died of the disease, but the district administration has denied the claim.
BHUBANESWAR: Cholera may have been controlled in Kalahandi but it is still fully on with its dreaded hybrid variant threatening to break loose. A surveillance study suggests that this killer bacteria is present in at least 13 districts of the State.
Eighty people were affected over the past 24 hours as diarrhoea gripped villages in Potka block of East Singhbhum. Of them, 50 have been admitted to various hospitals in Jamshedpur, Jadugora and Ghatshila.
Formal launching of publication and website (www.watsanbd.info) on Disaster Friendly Water and Sanitation technologies, was held under joint aegis of Concern Universal-Bangladesh (CUB) and Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) in the city's Dhanmondi auditorium of Dhaka Ahsania Mission on September 12.
