CHITWAN, June 1: People of remote Kanda village in Lothar-9 buried the bodies instead of cremating them to help rescue the seriously ill as the death toll due to toxic mushrooms reached five with additional two deaths on Tuesday.
Eight out of the 11 members in the family of Baburam Chepang, 65, had consumed wild mushrooms for dinner Friday evening and fallen ill. Baburam, his wife Moti Maya, 60, and their three and half years old granddaughter Aita Maya died in the village on Monday while Baburam´s daughter-in-law Manju Maya, 17, and his granddaughter Mangali Maya breathed their last at the Bharatpur Hospital on Tuesday.
Mangali Maya passed away immediately after being brought to the hospital Tuesday morning while Manju Maya died at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the afternoon. Baburam´s two sons -- Purna Bahadur, 23, and Jeet Bahadur, 20 -- were brought to Bharatpur Monday by villagers after being carried for 21 hours.
Dr Bijaya Poudel who is involved in the treatment said the two more deaths were due to delay in bringing the sick to the hospital. "Had they been brought at the stage of diarrhea, we could have saved them. But the toxins affected their livers and they died of liver failure," Dr Poudel said.
The remaining three are undergoing treatment at the hospital with Baburam´s daughter Geeta Maya in a critical condition at the ICU. The two brothers are in a stable condition.
Chepangs usually cremate the bodies of their dead but this time they buried them in lack of men. There are three households near Baburam´s house and they couldn´t cremate the bodies due to pressure of carrying the sick to Bharatpur.
"The condition of others became serious so we carried them toward Bharatpur asking the remaining persons in the village to handle the bodies in whatever way they can," Garba Singh Chepang, a neighbor, said at the hospital.
Garba Singh said other houses in the predominantly Chepang village are across the hills making it difficult for people to gather.
"Seven persons had left (with the two sons) on Sunday, five more had to leave Monday. The village has become almost devoid of adult men," said teacher at Kandeshwari Primary School near Kanda village, Bal Krishna Thapaliya.
Two more persons died even as the locals turned their attention toward the patients instead of going about cremating who had already died. "The family had at first tried faith healing and it was hard to convince them to go for medical treatment," Thapaliya added.
"I had called the in-charge of the sub health post at Deuralitar Ram Mani Silwal Saturday and he suggested to me to take them to Bharatpur as he only had medicines for nausea which would not work after 24 hours of the initiation of the problem," Thapaliya revealed the reason of taking the patients to Bharatpur.
Granddaughter Aita Maya was the first to die Friday night, Baburam´s wife passed away Saturday while Baburam breathed his last on Sunday night.
Source: http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=19379
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