Diseases break out with early cold

Early season cold is playing havoc with public health in Khulna amid outbreak of different types of disease when the winter has just set in. The situation has kept worsening day by day with the weather getting colder. Different cold-related diseases include fever, cough, jaundice, diarrhea, vomiting and pneumonia have broken out in the district in just a few days. And among the affected are mostly children. According to the Khulna Shishu Hospital authorities, a total of 3,629 children affected with cold-related diseases have received treatment in the outdoor of the hospital in the last one week. Besides, 1,440 children were admitted to the hospital in the last month with the same complaints, according to a news agency. A child specialist said when winter comes, children mostly infants are affected with several cold-related diseases, including RSV, Rota and Adino virus. He also advised the parents to adopt some precautionary measures to avoid being attacked with cold-related diseases, according to a news agency.