MP Ramesh Kumar Malla Draws Attention to Scrub Typhus Outbreak in Darma, Salyan

Kathmandu. Nepali Communist Party MP Ramesh Kumar Malla has drawn the government's attention to the spread of scrub typhus infection in Darma, Salyan. Speaking during the urgent time of the House of Representatives meeting on Wednesday, he stated that 7 people undergoing treatment in the hospital have died due to scrub typhus infection in the last one month in Darma Rural Municipality of Salyan. He mentioned that despite the rapid increase in the infection rate, there is an extreme shortage of testing kits in local health institutions.The Ministry of Health and Food Hygiene has stated that it is distributing rapid...