Alarming situation

The Himalayan Times

15 June 2016

Alarming situation

The number of cancer patients is alarmingly increasing in the country in the last five/six years. The main reasons behind this are the unhealthy living style, the higher level of pollution and consumption of adulterated foods among others. There is no proper quality control mechanism with the government which has made the consumers compelled to consume the contaminated bottled and piped water and adulterated foods putting their lives at high risk of getting infected with deadly diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, hepatitis, cardiac arrest, liver dysfunction, etc.

It has been reported that more than 300 cancer patients from all over the country normally visit Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital every year, of which, ten percent come from the valley “Most cancer patients from the Kathmandu Valley” (THT, 14 June, Page 2) which may not be even the exact number of patients because there are also other cancer hospitals in the valley which might be seeing a considerable number of cancer patients. It is said that this is a silent killer disease which is normally become active only after it gets fully matured. If it can be detected at the initial stage, it can be cured say the oncologists.

Once, the patient is diagnosed with cancer, a series of time consuming and very expensive treatment is required to fight it. It will be definitely painful to bear for the people who cannot afford treatment. In this case, the government should take the responsibility in one way or the other to bear the cost of the treatment like it has officially started bearing the dialysis expenses of the kidney patients. Also, the government should be serious in strengthening its quality control mechanism to sternly put it in place, make it active and start punishing the traders involved in food adulteration. It is high time that the government and its concerned agencies took necessary steps to improve air quality inside the Kathmandu valley at the soonest possible.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharajgunj.

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