NEPALI ARMY – MEDICAL TREATMENT

Date: 12th Jul 2009

7 more people lost their lives in Jajarkot yesterday due to the outbreak of diarrorea

The Nepalese Army has started providing treatment to patients in areas affected by diarrhea in Jajarkot district.

Two Nepalese Army teams with doctors have set up temporary medical camps at Sima and Panchala of Daha VDC for providing medical treatment to the affected people.

According to the Nepalese Army's Mid-west Division Headquarters, an army helicopter that had been pressed into service for carrying medicines and medical teams to the affected areas in Jajarkot and Rukum districts since Friday has dropped medicines on Saturday at Dalli, Sima, Dasera and Panchala

Preparations are also underway to set up 27 medical camps in the dirrahoea affected area.

Meanwhile, a local social activist Rajib Bikram Shahi has airlifted medicines to four places affected by diarrhea with his private expenses by hiring a helicopter of the Fishtail Air.