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08:06, August 13, 2007 |
Paramedics are pushing trolleys inside one after another and doctors are running and pushing intravenous saline to patients coming from flood affected areas.
This is Sunday morning in the specialized International Center for Diarrheal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB), the main hospital for treating patients of diarrhea and cholera in the country, which is located in capital Dhaka.
"You see we are in a difficult situation now. we have not seen such a situation since 1962 the hospital was founded," acting chief of the hospital Dr. Pradip Kumar Bhandari told Xinhua Sunday.
Bhandari said a total of 7,200 diarrhea patients have been admitted to the hospital since Aug. 1 and on Friday they received 1,000 diarrhea patients. Both figures are the highest in 45 years.
And on Saturday the number was 900, comparing to normally 250 diarrhea patients everyday before the flood.
Doctors said the patients are pouring into the hospital from different parts of the country, particularly from eastern part of the capital affected by the flood.
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