INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
DHANGADI, JULY 8More than 300 people have fallen ill due to an unknown disease in
Tilagufa Municipality-10 of Kalikot district
A medical team from the District Hospital and Tilagufa Municipality Hospital promptly responded by reaching Rudu village yesterday upon
receiving information about the disease.
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officer at the District Public Health Office, confirmed that the medical team conducted health tests on the patients and distributed
The affected individuals complain of various symptoms, including fever, throat pain, headache, tonsillitis, rashes on the face, and swelling
limbs.To gather more information, a health camp was organised in the village where blood samples from nine patients were collected and sent
to Surkhet for further testing
Dr Tanka Prasad Acharya from Tilagufa Municipality Hospital reported that the majority of patients are women and children.
Yesterday, 194 women and 117 men underwent medical checkup, 206 of them were under the age of 15.A version of this article appears in the
print on July 9, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
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