Morang prison under viral influenza grip

[Ronan Kelly]

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.
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fu...ison+under+viral+influenza+grip&NewsID=250298

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Morang prison under viral influenza grip

Viral fever among most inmates of Morang prison
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 09:44


About 253 inmates staying in Morang District Prison have been affected by viral influenza, reports say.

According to jailer Khagendra Giri, the viral influenza seen in ten inmates Sunday morning has spread to 253 persons by Monday evening.

Other inmates staying at the district prison are also at the risk of contracting influenza as a large number of inmates have been placed in small space. There are 413 inmates in Morang prison.

11 police personnel deployed for the security of the prison have also contracted influenza.

A team of doctors from Koshi Zonal Hospital has been deployed for check up and treatment of the affected inmates and security personnel. Doctors have distributed medicine to the affected inmates and masks to other inmates.

The prison administration has segregated the sick inmates from others and placed them in separate cells. nepalnews.com

http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index...fever-among-most-inmates-of-moran-prison.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Morang prison under viral influenza grip

Inmate dies in Morang district jail

Added At: 2010-10-04 8:50 AM
Last Updated At: 2010-10-04 8:51 AM
The Himalayan Times


BIRATNAGAR: An inmate has died at the Morang District Prison on Saturday.



Gopal Rai, 20, a resident of Dharan Municipality-8 had been jailed for involvement in narcotics trade.



Rai who fell sick all of a sudden was rushed to Koshi Zonal Hospital, where he died during treatment. He was reportedly a heat patient.



He had been in the jail since the past five months.
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fu...te+dies+in+Morang+district+jail&NewsID=260347