The rural municipality has mobilized health workers 24 hours a day to distribute water and medicines to the patients in the village, but so far only 11 people have been tested for RDT (Rapid Diagnostic Test). Although the spread of the infection has been confirmed, pure water has not been distributed here.
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The source of the infection in Sada Tole, Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality-5, Saptari, where cholera was confirmed after three people died of diarrhea in eight days, has not yet been identified.
Sanjeev, the one-year-old son of 33-year-old Buchan Sada, died of diarrhea on Kartik 20. Less than a week later, on Kartik 21, his 66-year-old father Laxman and on Kartik 22, his four-year-old daughter Raghini also died of diarrhea.
The rural municipality has deployed health workers 24 hours a day to distribute water and medicines to the patients in the village, but so far only 11 people have been tested for RDT (rapid diagnostic test). Of these, five positive cases have also been confirmed to have cholera in their cultures, but the rural municipality has not yet distributed pure drinking water. The three hundred bottles of water brought for distribution last Monday have been piled up at the health post Lokhram.
The residents of the village, who do not have toilets, are still forced to defecate in the pond, bushes and fields. Only on Wednesday, Sabal Nepal, with the help of Fermed and the coordination of the rural municipality, had sprayed sanitation and pesticides in the village. But the sanitation work has not been continuous. As it is still not possible to determine how and from where the cholera spread, the number of patients with diarrhea is increasing daily.
Although 44 people from the village have recovered and returned home after treatment, 18 are still suffering from diarrhea. Seven are being treated at Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital, Rajbiraj, and two at the health post, while nine are in home isolation. Dr. Amit Yadav, the head of the emergency room of the hospital where all seven are being treated, said, "Their health condition is improving."
The rural municipality, in collaboration with the health office, had sent seven water samples from the Chapakal, Pokhari, and Khola to the State Public Health Laboratory, Janakpur, for testing last Wednesday. But the report has not come. "It will take time for the report to come," said Dr. Satish Yadav, head of the health office, "The meeting of stakeholders has just ended, and we have coordinated with supporting organizations to distribute pure drinking water."
Chief Dr. Yadav said that drinking water will be distributed from Friday. But rural municipality chairman Bidyananda Chaudhary said that after the source of cholera was confirmed to be in drinking water, water bottles were piled up at the health post in preparation for water distribution in the village.
The Health Services Department has sent a doctor to facilitate the treatment of infected patients and to understand the situation. Dr. Anand Singh, who was sent by the department on Wednesday evening, is providing treatment services to patients coming to the health post.
