Rural families in Agra incur debts to pay private hospitals to treat their kids for dengue and fever
At least eight kids have died in Agra, Uttar Pradesh due to ‘fever’ whereas the district has reported 56 confirmed dengue cases so far. Rural people have little faith in the government health infrastructure and are borrowing heavily to get their children treated at private hospitals.
Brijendra Dubey
Two kids in a family die within two days, three hospitalised; ‘fever’ deaths continue in Agra, UP
While everyone’s attention is on Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, where 62 people, mostly children, have died due to a outbreak of fever believed to be dengue, in neighbouring Agra district, an underprivileged family lost two toddlers to ‘fever’. Three more children are still in hospital. Here’s a Gaon Connection report.
Brijendra Dubey
Firozabad mystery fever: 9-year-old Golu is the latest victim; patients from rural areas throng district hospital
The dreadful saga of death continues in Firozabad as more children succumb to mystery fever and dengue outbreak which is not limited to the nagar nigam alone. Patients are coming to the district hospital from villages too. Complaints of lack of proper treatment pouring in.
Brijendra Dubey
Firozabad mystery fever: Number of patients soar at the district hospital; families complain of delay in admission and treatment
At least 540 patients are admitted at the district hospital Firozabad and the numbers are rising rapidly. The administration has added more beds to the hospital to respond to the outbreak, which many believe is dengue disease. Till September 4, official death count in the district due to the ‘fever’ was 51, majority of whom are kids.
Brijendra Dubey
Firozabad echoes with the wails of grieving mothers whose children succumbed to a mystery fever
Sudama Nagar in Firozabad district wears a shroud of gloom as families in this mohalla have lost kids to a mystery fever that has gripped western Uttar Pradesh. Gaon Connection meets their grief-stricken family members.
Brijendra Dubey
Firozabad mystery fever: Two days of fever and stomach ache, and Manya is now just a memory
With at least 50 people already dead, Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad has become the hotspot of a mystery fever that is claiming the lives of young kids. Reports of this ‘viral fever’ are also pouring in from neighbouring districts in western UP. Here’s a Gaon Connection report from ground zero.
Brijendra Dubey
Diarrhoea outbreak in a tribal village in UP’s Sonbhadra leaves a pregnant woman dead and several others in hospital
The sole water tank has not been cleaned for 15 years, there are no safai karamcharis who clear the surroundings, and a single tap serves the entire population of 1,100. Belwania in Uttar Pradesh offers the perfect recipe for a disease outbreak, and currently, diarrhoea is rampaging through the village.
Brijendra Dubey
Bamboo to boost livelihood of tribal women in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
By roping in a design consultant from Assam, the Mirzapur forest department in Uttar Pradesh is honing the handicraft skills of tribal women to help increase their income by using locally available bamboo. Some men have also joined the free training and are making jewellery, raakhi, mats, show pieces, flower pots, etc from bamboo.
Brijendra Dubey
UP floods ground report: 406 villages inundated in Mirzapur as Ganga flows above danger mark
It’s been four days since Mirzapur is witnessing massive flooding due to the Ganga river flowing above the danger mark. The rising waters of the Ganges and the Karnavati rivers have cut-off over 400 villages in the district, as the affected villagers are reeling under food shortage and migrating in search of a safer ground.
Brijendra Dubey
With the stroke of a pen, hundreds of landless tribal farmers in Mirzapur left high and dry
Adivasi farmers in Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh, left in the lurch as the irrigation department declared all pattas for cultivation of land near Sirsi dam null and void from March 31, this year. It abruptly brought to a close their only source of livelihood for generations.