Six persons have died of diarrhoea in western Nepal district Kalikot, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported Friday.
In the Chhapre Village Development Committee (VDC) of Kalikot district, some 400 km west of the Nepali capital Kathmandu, diarrhoea took six lives in a week.
Diarrhoea has killed many villagers because hospitals based in the district are without doctors and medicines, 50-year-old Pankha Shahi said, who came to Manma, the district headquarters of Kalikot, from Chhapre VDC.
Meanwhile, the district public health office said a team of health workers reached the affected area on Wednesday and began treating diarrhoea patients.
Diarrhoea has been raging in 17 VDCs of the district. The people of Kalikot have accused the government of not doing enough to save the lives of diarrhoea patients.
Kalikot is a hilly district lack of convenient transportation means.
Source: Xinhua
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