UNB, Khulna :
Early season cold is playing havoc with public health in Khulna amid outbreak of different types of disease when the winter has just set in.
The situation has kept worsening day by day with the weather getting colder.
Different cold-related diseases have broken out in the district in just a few days since the onset of winter sending a staggering number of people to the hospitals for treatment.
And among the affected are mostly children.
A large influx of child patients has been witnessed in the local hospitals in the last one week.
Crowds of children inflicted with cold-related diseases are increasing in the city’s public and private hospitals and clinics, including Shishu Hospital, every day.
Children, especially of one day to 2/3 years, are falling victim severely to the onslaught of cold.
The diseases being attacked with which the children are seeking treatment at the hospitals and clinics include fever, cough, jaundice, diarrhea, vomiting and pneumonia.
According to the Khulna Shishu Hospital authorities, a total of 3,629 children affected with cold-related diseases have received treatment in the outdoor of the hospital in the last one week.
Besides, 1,440 children were admitted to the hospital in the last month with the same complaints while 791 children have received treatments for the cold-related diseases in the consultant department of the hospital in the last one week.
During recent visit to some government-run and private hospitals, this correspondent found that the numbers of patients attacked with cold-related diseases were increasing day by day.
Tahera Bugum, a resident of Chhachhibunia of Labanchara area came to a hospital with her 18-month-old boy Tanvir as he had been suffering from coughing and fever for the last one week.
Jahanara Begum, a resident of Customs Ghat, came to a hospital with her 8-month-old boy Nurunnabi, affected with cold-related disease, for treatment.
Dr Mohammad Barkat Ali, a child specialist and assistant professor of Gazi Medical College, said when winter comes, children mostly infants are affected with several cold-related diseases, including RSV, Rota and Adino virus.
He also advised the parents to adopt some precautionary measures to avoid being attacked with cold-related diseases.
Early season cold is playing havoc with public health in Khulna amid outbreak of different types of disease when the winter has just set in.
The situation has kept worsening day by day with the weather getting colder.
Different cold-related diseases have broken out in the district in just a few days since the onset of winter sending a staggering number of people to the hospitals for treatment.
And among the affected are mostly children.
A large influx of child patients has been witnessed in the local hospitals in the last one week.
Crowds of children inflicted with cold-related diseases are increasing in the city’s public and private hospitals and clinics, including Shishu Hospital, every day.
Children, especially of one day to 2/3 years, are falling victim severely to the onslaught of cold.
The diseases being attacked with which the children are seeking treatment at the hospitals and clinics include fever, cough, jaundice, diarrhea, vomiting and pneumonia.
According to the Khulna Shishu Hospital authorities, a total of 3,629 children affected with cold-related diseases have received treatment in the outdoor of the hospital in the last one week.
Besides, 1,440 children were admitted to the hospital in the last month with the same complaints while 791 children have received treatments for the cold-related diseases in the consultant department of the hospital in the last one week.
During recent visit to some government-run and private hospitals, this correspondent found that the numbers of patients attacked with cold-related diseases were increasing day by day.
Tahera Bugum, a resident of Chhachhibunia of Labanchara area came to a hospital with her 18-month-old boy Tanvir as he had been suffering from coughing and fever for the last one week.
Jahanara Begum, a resident of Customs Ghat, came to a hospital with her 8-month-old boy Nurunnabi, affected with cold-related disease, for treatment.
Dr Mohammad Barkat Ali, a child specialist and assistant professor of Gazi Medical College, said when winter comes, children mostly infants are affected with several cold-related diseases, including RSV, Rota and Adino virus.
He also advised the parents to adopt some precautionary measures to avoid being attacked with cold-related diseases.
