A gastroenteritis outbreak in the North West District (NWD) has claimed the life of a third child and as persons continue to turn up at the Port Kaituma Hospital for medical attention, the Health Ministry will be distributing water treatment tablets and putting measures in place for a rigid campaign to improve human waste disposal in the area.
The third casualty, a one-year-old child, died just after noon at the Port Kaituma Hospital on Thursday after a bout of severe vomiting and diarrhoea. The child, whose name this newspaper was unable to ascertain, hailed from Canal Bank and is the second child to have died from that community.
Stabroek News was unable to contact relatives of the child, but was told that the