Diarrhoeal outbreak risk rises as mercury ticks up in quake-hit districts

Doctors in Jajarkot and Rukum West say cases of fever and diarrhoeal infection have started to rise in health facilities.

Around a month and a half ago, a teacher and two of his students from Nalgad Municipality of Jajarkot district suddenly fell ill with diarrhoeal symptoms and were rushed to the municipal hospital.