Meherpur district has been witnessing outbreak of diarrhoea over the last 25 days. Over 100 diarrhoea patients, mostly children and women, were admitted to Meherpur Sadar Hospital on Saturday.
In the last 25 days, two people died and over 1,000 people were infected with the water-born disease.
Hospital sources said about 70 people were getting admission to the hospital every day.
According hospital sources, Pinki Khatun, 26, wife of Rashed Ahmed, a resident of Berpara area of the district town, had taken admission to the hospital on Wednesday morning. Later, she died in the evening.
Besides, Aroz Ali, a resident of Raipur village under Sadar upazila, got admission to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon and he died on Thursday morning.
Patients and their attendants lie floor as well as corridor of Sadar Hospital as the 10-bed Diarrhoea Ward of the hospital is too inadequate to deal with increasing number of patients.
Local people demanded test of water supplied by Meherpur municipality after 30 people were infected by the water-born diseases in Chakrapara and Stadiumpara areas on May 4.
District civil surgeon office conducted a tests of water, seasonal fruits and food. According to the report, diarrhoea in the locality has spread due to heatwave, stale food and consumption of chemical mixed seasonal fruits.
As the situation is not improving, a medical team from Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) visited the hospital on Saturday night.
The team led by Dr Narayan Chandra Das visited diarhoea ward and different places of the district and collected samples of seasonal fruits, food and water.
