Encephalitis kills, so does bias

Sanchita Sharma, Gorakhpur (Hindustan Times)

One look at the encephalitis ward in BRD Medical College — the only government hospital in the district that treats encephalitis — and you could be mistaken into thinking the disease afflicts only boys.

The ward is like an all-boys dormitory with harassed parents seeking treatment for their sons, many of whom have come from faraway villages.

The biased treatment is largely due to ignorance. People in Gorakhpur — the epicentre of Japanese encephalitis (JE) outbreaks since 1978 — believe the disease does not strike girls. That is not true, as the figures show.

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