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JALALABAD (PAN): Hundreds of people in eastern Nangarhar province have been infected with stomach diseases due to unhygienic water following recent rains, an official said.
Public health director Dr. Ajmal Pardes told Pajhwok Afghan News the disease was spreading due to the consumption of unsafe water and lack of awareness among people.
The disease was mostly reported from Achin, Nazian, Door Baba, Spin Ghar, Ghanikhel, Kot and Bhati Kot districts. Most of the people in those areas used water from natural streams, he added.
Figures from the central hospital in Jalalabad and 110 other health centres in different districts showed only one person has so far died while some 800 people, including children and women, had been hospitalised, he informed.
He said the health department, in cooperation with different NGOs, including Health Net, UNICEF, PMS Japan and the Afghan Red Crescent Society, provided 1,500 water purification tablets to health centres. However, he added, some people were not allowing health officials to apply the tablets to water.
He demanded of religious scholars, teachers and elders to educate the people on the benefits of the water purification tablets. He also demanded the private practitioners not to recommend costly medicines for the patients.
Meanwhile, religious scholars at the mosque of Public Health Department asked people to keep themselves and their environment clean.
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Public health director Dr. Ajmal Pardes told Pajhwok Afghan News the disease was spreading due to the consumption of unsafe water and lack of awareness among people.
The disease was mostly reported from Achin, Nazian, Door Baba, Spin Ghar, Ghanikhel, Kot and Bhati Kot districts. Most of the people in those areas used water from natural streams, he added.
Figures from the central hospital in Jalalabad and 110 other health centres in different districts showed only one person has so far died while some 800 people, including children and women, had been hospitalised, he informed.
He said the health department, in cooperation with different NGOs, including Health Net, UNICEF, PMS Japan and the Afghan Red Crescent Society, provided 1,500 water purification tablets to health centres. However, he added, some people were not allowing health officials to apply the tablets to water.
He demanded of religious scholars, teachers and elders to educate the people on the benefits of the water purification tablets. He also demanded the private practitioners not to recommend costly medicines for the patients.
Meanwhile, religious scholars at the mosque of Public Health Department asked people to keep themselves and their environment clean.
Hi, I am the source.
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