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The Kathmandu Post
17th April 2015

ABSENT STATE

The death toll in Jajarkot district has reached 16 due to unknown disease that broke out in VDCs in the last two weeks (“Deaths linked to swine flu” 15 April, Page 1). After tests, this disease has now been linked to be swine flu.  It took two weeks for the concerned health officials to find out the causes of the illness.

It is really sad to see people dying of diseases out in remote VDCs where health facilities are reportedly nil. The government owned health service outlets in the VDCs are poorly equipped and lack trained health staff and medical facilities. The government supplied medicines hardly last for six months and most are substandard. Most of these service outlets lack adequate number of health workers and proper infrastructures.

Organizationally, the health delivery system at the local level is one of the best systems in the South Asian countries. Nonetheless, every year, many rural people die of different kinds of epidemic diseases due to a lack of proper planning, implementation, supervision and monitoring systems. However, the government and the concerned authorities do not seem to be serious about correcting these shortfalls. When will they act responsibly?

Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj.

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