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Morang prison under viral influenza grip
Last Updated : 2010-07-19 11:50 PM
The Himalayan Times
Shekhar Regmi
BIRATNAGAR: With 253 inmates of the overcrowded Morang district prison in the grip of viral influenza, the jail administration is in panic. It fears that the disease might spread fast among all 413 inmates.
According to the jailer, Khilendra Giri, the disease had struck 10 inmates on Sunday morning, but the number had reached 250 persons by the evening.
Presently, a team under Dr Ghanashyam Kharel from the Koshi Hospital is attending to the patients. Sital Yadav, medical superintendent at the hospital, says blood test has confirmed that the prisoners have viral influenza.
The patients are under doctors? constant observation, according to the jail administration. Apart from the prisoners, eleven security personnel have taken ill.
Nabaraj Subba, chief, District Health office, says his office has sent medicines and 400 masks to control the disease.
?We have also informed the Department of Health about the viral outbreak,? according to Subba.
However, the disease has not yet spread in the female prison nearby, which houses 40 inmates.
Last Updated : 2010-07-19 11:50 PM
The Himalayan Times
Shekhar Regmi
BIRATNAGAR: With 253 inmates of the overcrowded Morang district prison in the grip of viral influenza, the jail administration is in panic. It fears that the disease might spread fast among all 413 inmates.
According to the jailer, Khilendra Giri, the disease had struck 10 inmates on Sunday morning, but the number had reached 250 persons by the evening.
Presently, a team under Dr Ghanashyam Kharel from the Koshi Hospital is attending to the patients. Sital Yadav, medical superintendent at the hospital, says blood test has confirmed that the prisoners have viral influenza.
The patients are under doctors? constant observation, according to the jail administration. Apart from the prisoners, eleven security personnel have taken ill.
Nabaraj Subba, chief, District Health office, says his office has sent medicines and 400 masks to control the disease.
?We have also informed the Department of Health about the viral outbreak,? according to Subba.
However, the disease has not yet spread in the female prison nearby, which houses 40 inmates.
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