GANGAPUR (BANKE), Feb 5 - Just two months after the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division controlled a malaria epidemic beyond the Rapti River, more malaria patients have been identified in the area.
According to Andeshwor Prasad Chaudhari, health supervisor, the blood samples of two out of 17 patients with fever tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which is considered severe. Sunir Ali of Gangapur VDC - 3 and Balak Ram Pasi - 30 are suffering from the disease.
Fever patients are increasing in Sonbarsa, Piprahawa and Bhagadiya VDCs. Though testing preformed through kit had shown negative result, a second testing through the slide had confirmed it. "The first result was negative but when we took the slide to Nepalgunj, it turned out to be positive," said Narayan Sharma, Assistant Health Worker of Health Post in Gangapur.
After reporting the increasing number of fever patients, Public Health Office had sent health workers to the area. Last November, the disease had killed over three dozen people in the same area. It took about a month for the division to bring the disease under control. Health workers are preparing to change the medicine for four other patients on whom the medicine given earlier did not work. Sharma said they would start giving another medicine after informing the division. -
The Kathmandu Post
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