India flood death toll rises by 40
The devastating monsoon floods that killed thousands and displaced millions in northern India and Bangladesh over the last few weeks claimed at least another 40 lives today, officials said.
As the flood subsided, doctors blamed a lack of access to basic medication and ignorance of how to treat the waterborne diseases that followed the deluge, saying many of these deaths were easily preventable.
A special hospital in Dhaka that treats diarrhoeal diseases has been visited by around 1,000 people a day since the floods, compared with 150 a day before the emergency, according to Alejandro Cravioto, executive director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research which runs the hospital.
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