Guwahati/Silchar, Apr 24 : The Assam government today gave all tea garden managers the primary responsibly of checking the spread of diarrhoea, as the killer disease has claimed the lives of nine children over the past few days in Hailakandi district’s remote hilly habitats nestled along the Assam-Mizoram border.
Fifteen labourers died of the disease in various tea estates of Upper Assam over the past week.
Jorhat deputy commissioner L.S. Changsang today convened an emergency meeting of all tea garden managers and directed them to take necessary steps to control the spread of the disease.
“Government agencies will provide necessary help but you all have to take the primary steps,” Changsang said at the meeting.
At Lala township in Hailakandi district, five of the total nine children, who fell victim to the scourge of diarrhoea in the district, have been identified as Ranalakshi Tripura, 3, Ribanjoy Tripura, 4, Bandanarani Tripura, 4, Sontosh Reang, 3, and Liukorama Reang, 5.
Lala anchalik panchayat president Bandana Reang said most of these deaths were reported from Dhalcherra and Bilaipur panchayat areas, which are very remote locations in this backward district and have no healthcare facility worth mention.
She also confirmed that hundreds of people had been afflicted by these seasonal ailments in the district’s Lala and Katlicherra blocks, which fall under Katlicherra constituency of the Congress strongman and the state’s excise and border areas development minister, Goutam Roy.
Jayanta Das, the medical officer of the Lala primary health centre, said he has reports of the incidence of such water-borne diseases at the far-flung villages in the block.
Goutam Roy said a health camp would be organised at Dalcherra village, a tribal hub, on Friday, where doctors would treat the patients.
Hailakandi district deputy commissioner Tapan Chandra Goswami, however, said no official report of the confirmed deaths had been received by his office.
Telegraph India
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