RAJSHAHI, Feb 26, 2019 (BSS)- Health experts at a discussion here today
unequivocally called for creating mass-awareness to prevent any outbreak of
Nipah virus infection as it’s very much dangerous to the public health.
They mentioned that the people particularly the grassroots ones must be
prohibited from drinking raw date-juice and half-eaten guava and jujube which
have, so far, been detected as the main cause of the infection.
They came up with the observation while addressing a daylong district
level workshop related to Nipah Virus Prevention at conference hall of Civil
Surgeon Office in Rajshahi today.
Civil Surgeon Office organized the workshop in association with Health
Education Bureau largely attended by most of the district level officers from
both government and non-government entities concerned.
Deputy Programme Manager of Health Education Bureau Maududul Hassan and
Senior Consultant (Medicine) Dr Abul Bashet addressed the workshop as
resource persons with Civil Surgeon Dr Sanjit Kumar Shaha in the chair.
District Primary Education Officer Abdus Salam, Deputy Director of
Department of Social Services Rashedul Kabir and Senior Health Education
Officer Md Shamsuzzaman also spoke.
In his keynote presentation, Dr Abul Bashet disclosed that the deadly
disease of Nipah Virus with the symptoms of high fever breaks out in the
winter season by drinking date juice which generally gets contaminated by the
bats.
Nipah virus is a deadly brain and lung disease that emerged from
Singapore and Malaysia ten years ago.
He stressed the need for creating awareness about drinking date juice and
to collect the juice from only the protected container.
Maududul Hassan urged the social leader to create awareness in the rural
areas among the juice collectors (Gachi) so that they put cover on the
container fixed with date tree preventing the bat from drinking the juice.