Starvation kills 5 of a family in Balangir, Orissa, India
December 21, 2009 at 6:03 pm sanjibkarmee Leave a comment
Minzi died in the district headquarters hospital in Bolangir after waging an unsuccessful battle for survival. Doctors who attended on her reported to have attributed her death to starvation, malnourishment and lack of healthcare. The latest deaths mean the family now has just two surviving members: Minzi’s husband Champeswar (72) and grandson Ramaprasad (7).
The dance of death, incidentally, started in the Bariha household, native of Chabiripalli hamlet under Bhanpur gram panchayat in the foothills of the mineral-rich Gandhamardan hill, on September 6. The first to perish was the youngest member of the family, a seven-month-old girl. The next day Sibaprasad (5) died. Two days later the kids’ mother Bimala, too, passed away.
The trio, according to those in the know, had succumbed to malnutrition and diseases from months of hunger. But the administration, for obvious reasons, refuses to admit that starvation had led to the deaths. On October 7, Bimala’s widower Jhintu, too, vomited blood and died.
The family’s finances had deteriorated after the prime breadearner lost a limb in an accident.
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Entry filed under: Balangir, Breakdown in Balangir, Kalahandi Balangir Koraput (KBK) region, Poverty and hunger, Poverty politics, Region watch, Starvation deaths, State Watch-Monitoring the Odisha State.
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