Health workers asked not to stay on leave in Parsa

Birgunj (Parsa), Aug 25: A meeting of the District Health Crisis Management Committee held on Sunday has decided not to approve the leave of the health workers except for the essential cases in view of the cholera outbreak in Birgunj.

The meeting presided over by the Acting Chief District Officer, Suman Kumar Karki, decided to deploy the health workers from the local levels in a centralized way after the detection of cholera in some areas in the city.

Minister for Health and Population of Madesh Province, Satrudhan Prasad Singh, also attended the meeting. 

Acting CDO Karki shared that all stakeholders will be coordinated with all the stakeholders for the control and prevention of the cholera outbreak.

Likewise, distribution, management and management of the human resources and logistics received from the federal and province governments would be carried out from the District Health Crisis Management Committee.

Similarly, the local level would carry out the investigations for the source of infection identification of the cholera outbreak, while the federal and province governments would ensure technical assistance for this.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the central security committee also decided to mobilize a team of medical practitioners in the cholera-hit Bijgunj city. The committee meeting chaired by Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak on Sunday decided to this end, directing the line agencies to ensure the teams for their immediate deployment in Birgunj. He directed the Nepali Army, the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force to pay adequate attention to it.  

Likewise, Minister for Health and Population, Pradip Paudel, and Minister for Drinking Water, Pradip Yadav, also discussed the ways to control and prevent the cholera outbreak in Birgunj city. 

In the city, arrangements have been made for the immediate treatment of the cholera patients for free of cost at both public and private hospitals.  (RSS)