Ahsanul Amin George, Khulna :
Due to ongoing scorching heat wave diarrhea has turned for the worse in Khulna as a large number of children and elderly people have been attacked with the water borne disease due to hot weather.
Sources at Khulna Shisu Hospital said, at least 700 children are coming to the hospital along with their parents for taking treatment every day which is higher than used time. Among them 50 percent children are admitted as their conditions deteriorate. The remaining children are sent back after giving primary treatment and advising them to take treatment keeping home.
Most of the children are suffering from summer – borne diseases including diarrhea, dehydration and pneumonia due to rigorous heat wave which has been Sweeping for the last 5 days. People of different age and group including children and elderly people are being admitted to different hospital and private clinics everyday for the few days.
The number of adult male and female patients has also increased in the last 3 days.
Being unable to accommodate all the patients most of the hospitals and clinics set up tents in the premises and most of the patients are being given treatment there this correspondent found in a recent visit. Most of the patients come from the city, its outskirts and upazila areas.
Ira Mollick, a housewife of Daulatpur Bonikpara area in the city comes to the Shishu Hospital for the treatment of her one year male baby Puja who was suffering from acute pneumonia .Talked to her this Correspondent learnt that she had been in the hospital for two weeks and after getting treatment she was returning home with her children.
Due to ongoing scorching heat wave diarrhea has turned for the worse in Khulna as a large number of children and elderly people have been attacked with the water borne disease due to hot weather.
Sources at Khulna Shisu Hospital said, at least 700 children are coming to the hospital along with their parents for taking treatment every day which is higher than used time. Among them 50 percent children are admitted as their conditions deteriorate. The remaining children are sent back after giving primary treatment and advising them to take treatment keeping home.
Most of the children are suffering from summer – borne diseases including diarrhea, dehydration and pneumonia due to rigorous heat wave which has been Sweeping for the last 5 days. People of different age and group including children and elderly people are being admitted to different hospital and private clinics everyday for the few days.
The number of adult male and female patients has also increased in the last 3 days.
Being unable to accommodate all the patients most of the hospitals and clinics set up tents in the premises and most of the patients are being given treatment there this correspondent found in a recent visit. Most of the patients come from the city, its outskirts and upazila areas.
Ira Mollick, a housewife of Daulatpur Bonikpara area in the city comes to the Shishu Hospital for the treatment of her one year male baby Puja who was suffering from acute pneumonia .Talked to her this Correspondent learnt that she had been in the hospital for two weeks and after getting treatment she was returning home with her children.
