Muzaffarpur continues battling floods
News | August 02, 2020 18:22 ISTParts of Bihar's Muzaffarpur have been badly affected due to floods.
Parts of Bihar's Muzaffarpur have been badly affected due to floods.
People set up temporary shelters along the road in Muzaffarpur, due to floods in the area. Locals claimed that they have not received any help from government.
Floods in Bihar have created havoc in the lives of people. Affected people are struggling hard to attain basic needs including food, clean drinking water and shelter to live.
Movement of vehicles continued in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district amid coronavirus lockdown.
As all government and private schools remain closed since the COVID-19 lockdown, it's having a devastating effect on the poor children in parts of Bihar.
The National Research Centre on Litchi (NRCL) in Bihar's Muzaffarpur has initiated 'Buniyad Purani, Nayi Kahani' initiative.
A mother of a child is his entire world. A loss of such a bond can be a great blow. The toddler in this tragic incident may not even know what is death, and its unfortunate that his first brush came in form of death of his own mother.
As many as 160 migrant workers staying at a quarantine facility in Muzaffarpur on Sunday protested and demanded COVID-19 testing and sanitisation in the facility, after three people tested positive for the deadly virus.
Three women in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur were allegedly thrashed after being tonsured by locals in Dakrama village and paraded half-naked on the superstition of them being ‘witches.’ The incident which took place in Muzaffarpur’s Dakrama village on 4 May.
Four unidentified people, without covering their faces, rob Rs 8 lakh from a private bank in Muzaffarpur on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on CCTV camera.
Delhi court has convicted 19 in Muzaffarpur shelter home case. NGO owner Brajesh Thakur is also amongst those who have been found guilty of sexual and physical assault of girls at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
A Delhi court Monday reserved its judgment in the Muzaffarpur shelter home case where several girls were sexually and physically assaulted.
One more child died in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Wednesday due to AES. The recent death took place in the Kejriwal hospital. The death toll has reached 132 in the district.
In Bihar, the mortality rate due to AES cases has come down significantly due to strategic interventions made by the central government, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday.
Out of the total 152 deaths due to brain fever across 20 districts in Bihar, 130 deaths were reported at the two Muzaffarpur-based hospitals, which have been admitting AES patients from nearly half a dozen districts in its proximity.
"The central and state teams have finalised the site and design of 100-bed PICU at Muzaffarpur, which will be supported under a centrally sponsored scheme," Vardhan said.
AES or chamki fever has spread to 16 districts in Bihar. Maximum child deaths have been reported from Muzaffarpur.
Maximum number of child deaths have been reported from SKMCH in Muzaffarpur, where children are being treated for Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).
Experts have blamed the high incidence of hypoglycemia on a toxin found in unripe litchi fruit, which is believed to be consumed by malnourished children from underprivileged backgrounds.
The issue first figured when Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu was reading out obituary references on the death of former members as well as those killed in terrorist attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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