Three of the 9 patients tested positive for cholera using RDT.
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Cholera infection is suspected to have spread in Sada Tole, Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality-5, Saptari, where three people have died of diarrhea.
Till Sunday evening, stool samples of 9 patients with diarrhea were collected and tested for cholera (Cholera Vibrio cholerae) using RDT (Rapid Diagnostic Test), and 3 of them tested positive.
After 3 patients tested positive through RDT, stool samples were sent to the provincial lab in Janakpur to confirm cholera, informed Rural Municipality Chairman Bidyananda Chaudhary.
According to him, the RDT of local Suraj Sada's 3-year-old son Manish, Shiva Kumar Sada's 7-year-old son Aman, and Subodh Sada's 30-year-old wife Rekhadevi Sada tested positive. 'We have immediately brought all three to Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital, Rajbiraj, for treatment,' he said. 'We have decided to deploy 4 health workers, 2 at the health post Kochabkhari (Lokram) and 2 in the affected village, 2 hours a day,' he said.
Soap, nail cutters, sanitizers and other items have been distributed in the tole, while schools in those wards have also been closed until further notice, said Chairman Chaudhary. However, he said that some locals are still refusing to give stools due to lack of public awareness.
Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr. Prakash Sah said that treatment of patients suffering from diarrhea has begun. ‘The condition of all three is normal now, there is no need to panic,’ he said.
Due to diarrhea that started two weeks ago, local Buchan Sada’s 1-year-old son Sanjeev died on Kartik 6, his Buchan father Laxman, 66, died on Kartik 11, and Buchan’s 4-year-old daughter Ragini died on Kartik 14.
Buchan's 5-year-old daughter Radhika is still suffering from diarrhea, while Shivshankar Sada's daughter Karina, 10, Krishna Sada's wife Lilamdevi, 25, daughters Gayatri Kumari, 3, and Sugandha Kumari, 6, and 60-year-old Bauku Sada are affected by diarrhea, along with more than a dozen locals.
The rural municipality, which received information about it only last Friday night, distributed medicine and water for life on Saturday morning and collected stool samples of some on Sunday and conducted RDT tests.
