Four people have already lost their lives in Salyan, three from high fever and one from scrub typhus, due to failure to identify the disease in time.
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Along with fever, scrub typhus patients have increased in Salyan. Hospitals and health institutions in the district are facing a surge in patients.
Four people have died in Salyan, three from high fever and one from scrub typhus, due to failure to identify the disease in time. Currently, the Health Service Office Salyan has been going to municipalities with an increase in fever patients and testing the blood of patients using kits to identify scrub typhus.
Head of the Health Service Office Salyan, Dr. Arjun Budha Magar, said that 77 people who came to the district hospital for treatment and 95 people, including 18 who went to the affected areas, were found to have scrub typhus. Some of those who came to the district hospital were referred to Nepalgunj, but one person has died. The others are being treated at the district hospital.
‘To prevent patients from losing their lives prematurely due to failure to identify the disease, the office, in collaboration with the municipality and the provincial government, has started testing for scrub typhus using kits by going to places with an increase in fever patients,’ Magar said. He has urged people to get a blood test immediately if they see any problems as the symptoms of scrub typhus are similar to dengue, typhoid, and corona, and high fever, and if the test is delayed, there is a risk of death.
Tara Prasad Rijal, Vaccination Officer of the Health Service Office Salyan, said that when blood tests were conducted using kits in Bagchaur Municipality-4, Shivarath, and Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality-4, Jhimpe, which are the most affected by fever, scrub typhus was found in 10 people in Bagchaur and 8 in Chhatreshwari. He informed that out of the 10 local levels in the district, 30 people have been found to have scrub typhus in Sharda Municipality, 30 in Bagchaur, four in Bangad, 17 in Chhatreshwari, three in Kapurkot, four in Kalimati, two in Siddhakumakh, and one in Kumakh Rural Municipality. According to him, dengue was also found in two people during tests in the affected areas of the two municipalities.
Yagya Bahadur Basnet, head of the health department of Darma Rural Municipality, said that with the change in weather, the number of fever patients in the municipality has increased and one person has died due to high fever. The woman who died of high fever had symptoms similar to scrub typhus.
Hari Bahadur Kathayat, acting chief administrative officer of Bagchaur Municipality, said that the municipality has purchased kits for testing after the number of scrub typhus patients increased along with fever. He informed that the purchased kits will be sent to health institutions. He urged anyone in the municipality to consult a health worker before buying medicine from a medical facility and taking it.
