Over 300 people taken ill from unknown disease in Kalikot

More than 300 people have fallen ill due to an unknown disease at Tilagufa Municipality-10 of Kalikot district.

A medical team from District Hospital and Tilagufa Municipality Hospital reached Rudu village on Friday after receiving the information about the spread of an unknown disease.

Information Officer at the District Public Health Office, Katak Mahat, said the medical team had distributed medicines after conducting health tests of the patients.

The patients have developed different symptoms including fever, throat pain, headache, tonsillitis, rashes on the face, and swelling limbs.

Mahat further said a health camp was organised in the village and blood samples of nine patients were collected and sent to Surkhet for test.

Most of the patients are women and children, said Dr Tanka Prasad Acharya of Tilagufa Municipality Hospital, adding 194 women and 117 men underwent checkups on Friday. Of them, 206 are under 15 years. All the patients have developed the same symptoms.