 Gorkha, September 6 2015- Higher Secondary School have taken ill so far with symptoms of being unconscious time and again in school, said school teacher Ram Kumar Ghale.
He said that the students have started falling sick for the past one week with a student going unconscious for as long as two hours at a time in particular.
While it is suspected that the case is attributed to mental stress being undergone by the students after the massive quake, another teacher Jani Ghale blames the situation on poor resettlement of the children, who are said to be deprived of two squares of meal a day, nutritious foods and proper accommodation post-quake.
Barpak was the epicentre of the earthquake that had killed nearly 9,000 people, injured hundreds of others and damaged hundreds of houses across the country.
Many quake survivors in the district are still awaiting resettlements even five months after the disaster, it has been reported.
“Many of the quake survivors are still living in tents without barely managing two squares of meal a day, let alone having nutritious food,” Jani said, adding that many quake-hit students seems depressed post-quake with some of them having eyes full of tears sometimes.
He said that the fact of losing their parents and textbooks to the quake among others in some cases, have dwindled their self confidence.
Mahendradhoj Adhikari, chief of the District Public Health Office, said that a team of doctors including psychiatrists have been dispatched to the affected area, assessing that the students are suffering from mental disease on the basis of the nature of the disease.
                                                                                 Source:RSS
