Life changing for better
Life changing for better for fluorosis-hitAjit Patowary
Furhan with knocked knees in 2012 and (right) in 2015.
GUWAHATI, May 29 – It is good news. Fluorosis in a number of children is being cured by a group of social activists with the use of safe drinking water and low-cost micronutrients, spending only around Rs 2 per head per day, in a remote area of the State. Significantly, Government healthcare facilities have remained mostly inaccessible for these people.
Around 2000 miserable people of this area, called Tapatjuri in Nagaon district, are the victims of fluorosis and of them, around 400 are children.
They became victim of this dreaded disease following protracted consumption of the groundwater supplied by the State’s Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), which contained excessive amount of fluorides.
The fluorosed people of Tapatjuri live in three villages – Tapatjuri, Nizparakhowa and Dikharumukh. But due to the intervention of a group of social workers led by Dharani Saikia, with the active support of former PHED Chief Engineer AB Paul, present officials of the State PHED and renowned neurosurgeon Dr Raja Reddy of the Hyderabad Apollo Hospital, the two NGOs – Gujarat Anand-based INREM Foundation and Bangalore-based Arghyam, things started undergoing a change for the better in Tapatjuri.
It needs mention here that the volunteers of the INREM Foundation worked among the fluorosed people of Jabua, Madhya Pradesh for about two years and found that fluorosis among the children could be cured by regularly supplying them safe drinking water and easily available low-cost micronutrients. They cured several of the Jabua children of skeletal fluorosis. Their method was also successful in arresting the progress of skeletal fluorosis among the aged people there..............
Furhan with knocked knees in 2012 and (right) in 2015.
Around 2000 miserable people of this area, called Tapatjuri in Nagaon district, are the victims of fluorosis and of them, around 400 are children.
They became victim of this dreaded disease following protracted consumption of the groundwater supplied by the State’s Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), which contained excessive amount of fluorides.
The fluorosed people of Tapatjuri live in three villages – Tapatjuri, Nizparakhowa and Dikharumukh. But due to the intervention of a group of social workers led by Dharani Saikia, with the active support of former PHED Chief Engineer AB Paul, present officials of the State PHED and renowned neurosurgeon Dr Raja Reddy of the Hyderabad Apollo Hospital, the two NGOs – Gujarat Anand-based INREM Foundation and Bangalore-based Arghyam, things started undergoing a change for the better in Tapatjuri.
It needs mention here that the volunteers of the INREM Foundation worked among the fluorosed people of Jabua, Madhya Pradesh for about two years and found that fluorosis among the children could be cured by regularly supplying them safe drinking water and easily available low-cost micronutrients. They cured several of the Jabua children of skeletal fluorosis. Their method was also successful in arresting the progress of skeletal fluorosis among the aged people there..............
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