Bihar encephalitis deaths reveal cracks in India healthcare.

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▼ More than 150 children have died in an outbreak of acute encephalitis, which has gripped the Indian state of Bihar since the beginning of June. BBC Hindi's Priyanka Dubey reports from Muzaffarpur, the epicentre of the outbreak.
The night before three-year-old Rohit Sahani died, he had gone to eat at a community feast in his village.
"He got dressed and went to eat with other children. A few hours after coming back, he seemed restless," Sudha, his 27-year-old mother, said, sitting in the family's mud home in Rajapunas village.
"He kept asking for water throughout the night. He woke up hungry in the morning. But just after eating two spoons of rice, he had diarrhoea."
His parents took the boy to two local doctors, but they were on strike in solidarity with their colleagues in the eastern city of Kolkata, who had been assaulted by the relatives of a patient who had died in hospital. So Rohit was taken in an ambulance to a local government hospital.
"Rohit's fever shot up there and his convulsions intensified. Doctors moved him from one ward to another three times in the five hours that he spent there. But his condition didn't improve," his father Anil Sahani said.
"The doctors put him on oxygen and shifted him to the main government hospital in Muzaffarpur."
Rohit died in the crowded paediatric intensive care unit of the Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital within two hours.
Doctors said the toddler had died of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). More than 150 children have now died in an outbreak of the disease, which is also known as "brain fever".
At least 500 patients, many of whom are below the age of 10, have been admitted for treatment at two hospitals in the district since the beginning of June.
The disease usually occurs during the monsoon season and symptoms include high fever, (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Rhett_Bassard

No surprise, Bihar is a special place. I believe every country has a similar state.
During my 5 yrs in India, I was told to never go there as kidnapping was rampant.
Bihar is at the polluted, eastern end of the Ganges, downstream from Delhi, etc. Lots of dead body parts.
Then there are the Venezuela-like consequences of Bihar's Communists and Naxalites.
Mix them all together and it's a questionable receipe for Indian health.

I encourage others with more knowledge of Bihar (and Jharkhand) to speak up.

Pedro_P

Almost all countries, including the most developed ones, have their own "third world" at home... And in turn, almost all developing countries have their "first world".
In my country, the public health system is deficient, however there are clinics so medically developed, that they would only be seen in developed countries.
The Venezuelan case is terrible, there is nothing to rescue there, Cuban doctors perform a task of indoctrination rather than health. The public health system is totally destroyed.
However, the countries of South America in general are not exempt from difficulties, each country and its own public healt system, has more or less deficiencies.

ssangra

Rhett Bassard 25-6-2019 01:07 PM
No surprise, Bihar is a special place. I believe every country has a similar state.
During my 5 yrs ...

In some parts of Bihar they kidnap eligible guys to forcibly marry their daughters.
Does anyone have any dope on cuban system of healthcare. Had seen an old documentary on TV that was impressive. In India the public hospitals are literally killing fields (pun intended as amply exemplified by the skeletons strewn around in their compounds). The rich can afford large hospitals but even there they are money minded. They wont admit an old patient who may be dying thereby denying him / her basic respect in last days. One has to hold a gun to the temple of the administrator and threaten public media exposure for them to admit the patient. Further they have untrained interns as doctors in ICU who will make gross mistakes and then change the public records of the hospital to protect  themselves. The oath to care for life till last breath is forgotton or sacrificed on the altar of money. Shameless trading in organs of living happens openly and doctors wrongly advise that person is brain dead to harvest organs even if person could easily be restored to health. Same doctors will scream murder if someone slaps them when a death occurs due to their negligence. The safest way is to stay out of a doctors or hospitals path. Death that comes naturally is more merciful.