Bhim Sunar, a local, said, “All the six-members in my family have contracted the disease and I don´t have money for treatment.”
Another local, Dev Bahadur Kami, shares a similar plight. Locals complained that a three-member team from District Public Health Office (DPHO) that had reached the village returned without treating them.
“They left after distributing Jeewan Jal pouches and told us to go to Mahendranagar if the disease got worse,” Dev Bahadur said. Locals, however, said that they couldn´t afford a bus fare to Mahendranagar. Maina Sunar, another local, said she didn´t recover even after taking medicine given by the DPHO team.
Of the 13 families living in the settlement, only two families have not contracted the disease. All the affected have taken loans for treatment at the local clinic.
“I have already spent Rs 7,000, which I had borrowed for treatment,” said Nawal Singh Kami. “No one is willing to lend us money,” he complained. Kami said he needed 40 bottles of saline, which would cost him Rs 4000.
Children in the settlement have stopped going to school after contracting diarrhea.
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