The Currents of Cholera: Untold Stories of Cholera's Resurgence in Bengal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- On April 1, 2024, Dhanajay Roy’s one-year-old son Suboron Roy started having severe stomach pain and passed watery stool at least 20-25 times for 2 days in a row. In the next 15 days, his whole family, including his father, mother, grandmother, and siblings, were affected.
Soon enough, 99 people of all age groups in the villages of Amjhara 10, Amjhara 11 and Majhnipada 11 of the South 24 Parganas were impacted by sudden acute watery diarrhoea outbreak.
Authorities rushed to the scene and identified traces of the bacteria responsible for cholera infection from a community hand pump. The pump was sealed immediately.
People were also advised against buying unauthorised drinking water and using their traditional ponds, as they were deemed to be contaminated as well. For immediate relief, a tanker was deputed to provide water. But this too ended in a month.
The desperate villagers are now returning to their contaminated ponds for bathing and washing utensils, unwittingly putting themselves at risk for the next outbreak.
Apart from the contamination of drinking water and the usual inefficiency from authorities, there are a few interesting questions. How did a hand pump become the source of cholera contamination? Is there a correlation between cholera and heat? And most importantly, why isn't the data on any outbreak from this area shown on the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) database? To get more answers, Down To Earth’s Rohini Krishnamurthy and Midhun Vijayan travelled to West Bengal, a state with a historic connection to cholera.
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You covered a very important thing, thanks. Governments should wake up to resolve these issues.
Why center and state governments are not taken any steps to improve this condition. Clean water more essential for people's. Thank for down to earth chennal for addressing this issues.
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If we see disease that occurred in past particularly in Assam and West Bengal we will find that cholera was to be one of the most common disease I also heard elders saying that Cholera used to be spread from village to village during that time But in current particularly in my state Assam the cases of cholera really came down probably for improved lifestyle of the people .
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