{"id":196894,"date":"2022-08-01T01:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=196894"},"modified":"2022-08-01T01:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:08:25","slug":"tirap-da-monitoring-diarrhoea-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/tirap-da-monitoring-diarrhoea-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirap DA monitoring diarrhoea outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHONSA, 31 Jul:<\/strong> Following the death of 9 children aged between 3 and 10 years due to a diarrhoea outbreak in Lazu circle of Tirap district, DMO (i\/c) Dr Obang Taggu said that &#8220;the exact reason is yet to be ascertained as stool and water samples have been sent for further analysis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While seven children died in Pongkong village, two deaths were reported from Longliang village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation is being constantly monitored by local MLA W Sawin, DC T Mize, and others, and a medical team has been formed to be stationed at Lazu for constant examination and treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An ambulance has been arranged to lift serious patients from Pongkong, Longliang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">and nearby villages to the district hospital here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DC has instructed the medical team to &#8220;stay at the village community hall to monitor the situation closely and be available 24\/7 for any emergency requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Students and panchayat leaders have been engaged to create awareness and convince the villagers to cooperate with the medical team and render their services, as earlier medical team had a hard time convincing the villagers to come for test and symptom assessment as they believed it to be associated with evil spirit,&#8221; the Tirap DIPRO informed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DIPRO quoted Lazu PHC MO Dr AK Sen Gupta as saying that the situation is improving as there has been no further report of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHONSA, 31 Jul: Following the death of 9 children aged between 3 and 10 years due to a diarrhoea outbreak in Lazu circle of Tirap district, DMO (i\/c) Dr Obang Taggu said that &#8220;the exact reason is yet to be ascertained as stool and water samples have been sent for further analysis.&#8221; While seven children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}