The U.N. took the measure after the diarrhea spread throughout the district claimed 34 lives. The monitoring teams in the affected sites include UN officer Leath Beaker, Dr. Sarvesh Jha from UNFPA, Uma Adhikari from UNICEF among others, the ekantipure.com, a local news portal, reported.
Rakesh Thakur, Senior Officer of the Saptari Public Health Office, told media that the team started its monitoring in the sites on Tuesday. "It would research on a suitable method for the control of the disease and would support us."
The team from BP Koirala Institute of Health and Science had found viral cholera last week that is said to have been eradicated from Nepal a decade ago, in Saptari district where the incessant rain in monsoon rendered an outbreak of diarrhea in the district.
Saptari district, a part of Sagarmatha zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia.
