Health and Family Welfare Minister Pradip Kumar Amat on Mondayinformed that State Assembly that a total of 221 have so far suffered from the Japanese Encephalitis in undivided Koraput district, and of them 43 have died.
He too informed that the State Government has no provision to provide compensation to parents of children who die of the Japanese Encephalitis.
The Minister informed these in response to a question of Congress MlA Tara Prasad Bahinipati. He said one kind of virus causes of the disease and is spread through mosquitoes from pigs to human beings. Generally, it affects children in the age group of one to 15 years, the Minister said.
A State-level technical committee involving experts from outside the State and members of organisations having expertise in dealing with the disease has been constituted for prevention of the disease besides a host of other measures, Amat added.