Malkangiri Muzzabbaha from Gauze by RAVANA
More than 300 Adivasi (Tribals) children have died in Malkangiri (Odisha, India) in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 121 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri?
Firstly, 32 children have been confirmed to have died due to JE. This by itself is cause for concern and requires all the necessary action by the Odisha government. The government is only now waking up to training health professionals to carry out immunization. Why was there so much of a gap in response. It shows that the government has not responded in a timely fashion and is now getting out of a difficult situation by hiring experts who minimize the role of JE and therefore the role of the government, which increasingly the burden of responsibility on the community.
Of those who survive JE infection, 20%–30% suffer permanent intellectual, behavioral or neurological problems such as paralysis, recurrent seizures or the inability to speak. This requires urgent action by the government even if there are one or two confirmed cases. Instead the government did nothing, allowed many more deaths to occur and then brought in an expert committee which then went on to make the community the violator rather than the government.
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