53-year-old Ramasilam Giri of Motai Village, Kushe Rural Municipality-9, who lost his home in the earthquake that occurred in the second week of October last year, died of cold in a temporary shelter last year. Ever since he died of asthma, his family of six has been troubled, and his 51-year-old wife Chitralekha has also been sick with fever for a week.

"It has become a problem to earn a living after my father's death, and now my mother is suffering from fever," said the 34-year-old son, "The children are also sick with cold, and it was difficult for their family to survive in Tripal for almost 3 months." If it is passed, there is a problem with the severe cold in the temporary shelter built at the end of January last year.

Kushe-9 Ward President Shivraj Giri said that in all the temporary towers of the ward where it snows every year, someone is sick. "The long-term sick, infants, pregnant women, and the elderly who are living in temporary shelters are cold," he said. break In Jajarkot last year, 43 people died in tripal and temporary tents due to the cold, while about 6000 children, old people, and pregnant women died. And pregnant fell sick.

Amar Bahadur Pariyar of Thaple in Jajarkot Khalanga said that he admitted his 2 children to the hospital after falling ill due to cold. They have symptoms of cold, fever and swelling of hands and feet. In the family of 8 people, except for him and his wife Shanti, everyone has fallen ill since last one month.

'Because old tins are used on the roof, dew leaks throughout the night, the walls made of old tiles do not even catch the cold,' he said, 'We are forced to keep the fire burning all night because of the cold weather.' He complained that it was difficult to protect his elderly parents.

Ghanshyam Mahar of Nalgad Municipality-1 said that it was difficult to get out of the temporary tent due to the cold. His family of 9 spent almost 3 and a half months in Tripal and had to live in a temporary tent for 8 months.

'How much more difficult life do we have to live?', he said, 'We have to do everything from eating to sleeping in a single room, we have no jobs or crops, the government didn't even treat us like citizens.' He is worried about how to earn a living now that the food provided by the municipality and organizations before Dasain is running out. Dr. Nalgad Nagar Hospital, whose diarrhea, fever, and cold are increasing due to cold. Vishal Upreti said. According to him, daily 100 to 150 patients are coming to the hospital for treatment.

Nalgad Nagar Chief Dambar Bahadur Rawat said that the earthquake victims were neglected when the federal government neglected reconstruction. According to him, about 50 to 100 earthquake victims have fallen ill due to cold in all the wards. He said that nearly two dozen health workers with medicines have been deployed in all wards for the treatment of earthquake victims.

'In the difficult winter, all the victims of the earthquake are covered in the same clothes,' he said, 'there is no temporary shelter without cold, fever and diarrhea, the medicine has reached, the health workers have gone to the houses to treat them.' He said that since 300 houses were destroyed, it was difficult to find people in all the families who did not have some health problem.

The federal government made a procedure to provide temporary housing for the earthquake victims in two installments at the rate of 25/25 thousand. But still about 60 percent of the earthquake victims have not been able to get the money for the second installment.

Jajarkot chief district officer Mekh Bahadur Mangarati said that so far only about 10,000 beneficiaries have been given 25,000 for the second installment. He said that since 40 thousand 41 beneficiaries have been established in Jajarkot, only about 3 crore rupees are available in the account of the District Disaster Management Committee, the distribution of funds has been stopped.

'We don't have enough money, we have requested more money from the Ministry of Home Affairs,' he said, 'All the money for the second installment will be distributed within a month.' are eligible to receive the amount. Similarly, 34 thousand 997 beneficiaries have been established in Rukum West, about 16 thousand have received the amount for the second installment.

Information Officer Krishna Bahadur Khatri said that Jajarkot District Hospital is also full of patients due to cold. He said that daily up to 100 patients are coming to the district hospital for treatment.

'Due to the cold, chronic patients and lung and heart patients have more problems,' he said, 'Pneumonia, fever and colds are also increasing in children. According to him, almost 80 percent of the patients who come to the hospital are sick with cold. The federal government has allocated 21 billion rupees for reconstruction in the budget of the current financial year. But Chandra Prakash Ghartimagar, head of Jajarkot's Bheri municipality, said that the amount was kept in the 'Abanda' fund of the Ministry of Finance.

'That amount should have gone to the National Reconstruction Authority, the amount kept in the Abanda fund can be taken anywhere,' he said, 'Even the detailed damage assessment has not been done yet, which makes it unclear when the reconstruction will take place.' Officer Kul Bahadur GC said that there is a problem because there is no procedure for reconstruction.

'It has been heard that the procedure has gone to the Council of Ministers, then the re-evaluation of the damaged structure will also be done,' he said, 'Now we are in the process of distributing the second installment of temporary housing as soon as possible.' -break Even after 1 year of the earthquake, the Karnali state government is engaged in reconstruction after the federal government did not show interest. In the first phase, the provincial government has started to rebuild the health institutions and community schools damaged by the earthquake. For this, 500 million rupees have been allocated in the budget of the current financial year. In Rukum West and Jajarkot alone, around 400 community and government buildings have been damaged due to the earthquake.

The provincial government has allocated a budget for the reconstruction of 42 health institutions and schools in Jajarkot. According to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Urban Development, funds have been allocated to 11 health institutions and 31 community schools. Ishwarchandra Marhatta, secretary of the ministry, said that 45 lakh to 75 lakh rupees have been allocated for those community buildings.

According to him, the same number of community buildings will be constructed in Rukum West. He said that the work of selecting a plan for there is going on. According to the procedure for the reconstruction of community buildings, the ministry has also given budget authority to infrastructure development offices.