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Patients of viral fever, cold and pneumonia have increased in Darma Rural Municipality of the earthquake-affected district. Such patients have increased due to the increased cold in the last one week.
Viral fever, cold and pneumonia affect not only children, old people but also adults . All the health institutions of the municipality are now experiencing a rush of patients. Those who are a little more sick have started going to hospitals outside the municipality.
Yagya Bahadur Basnet, head of the health branch of Darma Rural Municipality, said that after the increase in viral fever and cold patients, now every house in the municipality is sick. He informed that because fever and cold are communicable diseases, even two/three people in the house where one person has been affected have started to be affected.
In the earthquake that occurred on October 17 last year, 4,600 houses were damaged in the municipality and 3/400 of those who were damaged are still forced to live in slums, due to the lack of economic conditions, everyone has not been able to arrange warm clothes and they have to eat hot soup in the cold. He says that the residents of the city have been affected because they are not there.
The number of patients coming to health institutions for treatment has increased after the increase in cold and fever patients, said Deepak Chand, in-charge of Dhakadam health post and health worker. He informed that earlier 15/16 patients were coming to the health institution daily, now up to 30 patients and most of them are suffering from cold, fever, pneumonia and asthma. He said that although many patients come for treatment every day, there are no complicated problems and those with severe pneumonia are sent to District Hospital Salyan and Mission Hospital Chaurzahari.
Yagya Bahadur Budhathoki, in-charge of Vulchaur health post, said that although the number of viral fever and cold patients has increased, it has not become an epidemic. He informed that due to the growing cold day by day and not being able to arrange food and clothing according to the time, there are more problems of fever, cold and asthma among children and the elderly. "It is not enough to eat and live without working in the village". As soon as you wake up in the morning, you should cut the grass and do the fair without saying it is cold,'' he said.
In other municipalities of the district, the health chiefs of the municipality have said that although the problem of cold is seen in sporadically two/four people, the problem of fever and pneumonia due to cold is not seen.
