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Odisha fights unknown diseases that killed
24
Thursday November 08, 2012 07:39:08 PM,
IANS
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha has
intensified health awareness campaign in tribal-populated
Malkangiri district after at least 24 children died of unknown
diseases in the region in recent months, an official said
Thursday.
The awareness campaign was launched after the children between two
and five years of age died in five villages of the district in
September and October, chief district medical officer Sashibhushan
Panda told IANS.
The highest deaths of eight each occurred in Potrel and Usakapalli
villages, about 25 km from the district headquarters town of
Malkangiri, he added.
The children who died had mild fever and swelling of eyes, noses
and ears. Besides they had other symptoms similar to those
infected by Japanese Encephalitis, a mosquito-borne virus that
kills thousands of children in India every year.
Panda said a team of experts visited the affected villages a few
days ago and collected about 70 samples to identify the exact
cause behind the deaths. The results of these investigations are
expected in three-four days, he said.
Meanwhile, health awareness campaigns in the affected villages
have been intensified. The villagers are mostly tribals and were
reluctant to visit nearby health centres and were depending on
witch doctors for cure, Panda said.
Therefore, health officials have been deployed and mobile health
units have been sent to vulnerable areas, he added.
So far, 70 children have been treated in the region.
Panda also pointed out that there has been no report of any
suspected Japanese Encephalitis case from Potrel and Usakapalli
villages respectively since Oct 16 and Nov 1.
Experts suspect the children might have died of Japanese
Encephalitis, because the affected villages house large number of
pigs, the amplifying host of the virus.
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