A medical team from the government-owned Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research or IEDCR visited 13 children who were admitted to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital on Thursday. Nine children from Tripura Para of Sonaichhari in Baraulia died after suffering conditions including high fever and breathing troubles in a span of four days. Another 46 children from the remote village were hospitalised with the same condition. “These children are severely malnourished because of their socio-economic condition,” IEDCR Chief Scientific Officer Md Faruk Ahmed Bhuiyan told reporters. “Our primary assumption is that they contracted the disease because of the vulnerability caused by long-time malnourishment.”“They are severely anaemic, undernourished and lack potassium.

Source: bd News24 July 13, 2017 12:56 UTC