“While the number of patients in the hospital has shot up, health workers have taken ill,” said Dr Swairita Kafle, adding, “We don´t have sufficient health workers to treat the patients.” With the hospital facing pressure from patient inflow, the District Health Office has sent doctors from the Primary Health Center in Bhimad to the hospital. [break]
Typhoid spread has not even spared employees at various government and private offices, thus affecting work there. The effect is seen in District Police Office, District Financial Comptroller Office, and Tanahun District Court, apart from Livestock Service Office, among others.
As many as 30 police personnel posted at the District Police Office have taken ill. This has affected service delivery, said chief of district police Ishwari Prasad Chapagain. Two doctors from Police Hospital in Kathmandu have reached Damauli to treat them.
Similarly, of the five employees at District Financial Comptroller Office, two have contracted the disease, affected the office´s internal auditing, according to Chief Financial Comptroller Shaligram Sharma Poudel.
The District Court has also been affected with district judge Jagat Prasad Shrestha falling ill.
At the Land revenues Office, one of the two computer operators is ill, according to Khagendra Raj Ghimire. This has affected the printing of land ownership certificates.
The disease that first appeared 45 days ago has reached epidemic proportions, according to Damauli Hospital. Over 200 patients arrive at the hospital every day, the hospital chief Dr Sushilnath Pyakurel said.
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