This story is from September 6, 2017

After hospital tragedy, flood-induced diseases target Gorakhpur children

After hospital tragedy, flood-induced diseases target Gorakhpur children
Children suffering from stomachache is common.
GORAKHPUR: A new danger now haunts the children in Gorakhpur.Even before encephalitis could have been tackled, the havoc of flood left behind in the form of garbage, filthy water, and insanitary conditions is leading to spread of diseases like diarrhoea, viral fever, dysentery , jaundice and other water-borne diseases in children in several villages of Gorakhpur.

Five-year-old Yesh Chauhan had started the second year of school when his life was cut short. Yesh was first diagnosed with jaundice and later died of hepatic encephalopathy (under Acute Encephalitis Syndrome) at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College.
“Kya pata kya ho gaya, naseeb tha apna (Don't know what happened to him; perhaps it was desinty),“ rued Yesh's father Sanjay Chauhan, a resident of Pachhpidwa village. While family remains clueless, the stench of muck left behind by receding floods in Gorakhpur speak volumes.
In Rahmatnagar, about 20km from Gorakhpur city , most of the children suffer from stomachache, fever and diarrhoea. Among the ailing children are Rahmatnagar resi dent Madhuban Chauhan's two sons -Ashish (8) and Sunny , both down with fever and stomach ache. Muck, mud, and filthy water can be spotted outside Chauhan's single storey house.
Kamla, another resident of this village, shows the damp walls of her house where flood water had entered. Her two-and-a-half-year old grand daughter Radha has been suffering from fever for past few days. At BRD hospital, the number of children deaths and sick patients continues to rise. State health minister Sidd harth Nath Singh had blamed floods for such cases as most of the patients were suffering from waterborne diseases and snake bites. Gorakhpur's chiUP's S ef medical officer Dr Ravindra Kumar, ho OF HE wever, said there is no alarming increase in flood related diseases in the district's community health care centres (CHC) and primary health care centres (PHC). “There has been no death due to water-borne diseases at any CHC or PHC,“ he said.
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