A health camp was organized in Darma after four people from the municipality died of high fever and many others were diagnosed with fever.
Four women from Darma Rural Municipality of Salyan have died in the past two weeks due to high fever.
Four women who were taken to Nepalgunj for treatment within a few days of each other in the past two weeks have died.
Following the increase in fever patients, a two-day health and blood test camp conducted in Wards 3 and 5 jointly organized by the Health Service Office Salyan, Darma Rural Municipality and the local Genji Group confirmed scrub typhus and dengue in 51 people.
A health camp was organized in Darma after four people from the municipality died of high fever and many others were found to have fever.
Yagya Bahadur Basnet, the head of the rural municipality's health branch, said that four women aged 35 to 55 years died in Nepalgunj during treatment in the past two weeks. He said that they were taken to Nepalgunj for treatment after suffering from high fever for several days and fainting. Only the district hospital has testing facilities here to identify scrub typhus.
Out of 67 people tested for scrub typhus in ward 3, 23 and 61 people tested in ward 5, 28 were found to have scrub typhus. In the two-day camp, 412 people received tests and treatment. Basnet informed that all those who were found to have scrub typhus and dengue were given medicine under the supervision of health workers. He said that patients with fever would also be tested in other wards of the municipality to prevent the spread of the infection.
Head of the Health Service Office Salyan, Dr. Arjun Budha Magar, said that the outbreak of fever and scrub typhus was increasing and that the camp had to be conducted after four women died due to high fever.
In the past three months, 101 people in Darma Rural Municipality, Bagchaur Municipality and Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality and 59 people who came to the district hospital for treatment from other municipalities have been found to have scrub typhus. He said that so far, one man has died of scrub typhus and six people, including four women, have died of high fever.
