DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA SPECTRES STILL HAUNT NUAPADA

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DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA SPECTRES STILL HAUNT NUAPADA

Saturday, 24 August 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar

Khula Asma ke Niche:
"we are happy that our child was saved"
Picture by Maya Saraf, OTV, Nuapada
Despite the claim of the district health administration that cholera and diarrhoea in Sinapali block is under control, there is every possibility of their reoccurrence.
The recent death of a person in Sinapali town has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in the area. Besides, two more deaths have occurred due to diarrhoea in Kusumkhunta village of Gorla gram panchayat. The deceased include a two and half years old kid.
“Diarrhoea in our village started after the migrant workers returned from their Andhra trip,” the villagers said. Officials of the health department confirmed that the source of diarrhoea in the village was the use of water from the village pond, where the diarrhoea affected people washed their clothes.
A mobile health team has been posted to attend the need of the affected people. More than 100 people have been administered medicines, the team reported.
“The cholera in the block is under control, but one can’t be sure that it would not reoccur,” the health officials of the Community Health Centre (CHC) of Sinapali revealed. The Community Health Centre (CHC) after a thorough investigation of the causes of cholera occurrence has submitted a report to the district administration. The report has identified supply of untreated drinking water by the RWS&S as one of the causes.
The other aspect is the sanitation behaviour of the people.  The source of water for pipe water supply is a river and there is open defecation on the river bed near the source of collection. Yet another cause of concern is the leaking of the water pipes which have been laid inside the drains carrying the effluents of the household latrines.
“There are leakages in the pipes inside the drains, which might have been one of the main causes of drinking water contamination,” said Block Programme Organiser of Sinapali Community Health Centre (CHC). 
“Unless the RWS&S and the people are involved in the maintenance of the pipe lines, the situation will not change,” he added.
The people also need to change their behaviour relating to sanitation. More than 80 per cent of the people in this area defecate in open especially in the river bed. The Community Health Centre located in the outskirts of Sinapali town has a gloomy look, without having proper infrastructure and health staff to cater to a large number of people.
There is shortage of space in the Community Health Centre (CHC) forcing the diarrhoea and cholera affected people to take shelter under the sky.
When the residential quarters of the medical officer is being used as the gynecology ward, another doctor’s quarter functions as the medicine distribution centre of the RKS (Rogi Kalyan Samiti). The maternity ward is the only space available for running of the indoor facility.
Thus the hospital although was upgraded to 16 beds, only six beds could be accommodated. When there is a situation of emergency, it becomes very difficult to accommodate the patients, a hospital staff said.
Not only infrastructure, there is also shortage of doctors in this Community Health Centre (CHC). The posts of three specialists are vacant since long. Only two doctors out of five have been posted,

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