In the first week of June, two thee year old children died of diarrhea in Pasin village, Matupi Township.

With no doctor available in the in the village the villagers have no idea what disease actually killed the children. Villagers as such are at the mercy of infectious diseases. They have to go to a doctor 10 miles from Pathian tlang village. The doctor is very busy treating other patients, said a local in Pasin village.

Because doctors are not available in the village, when villagers buy medicines from private shops they have no idea whether they are buying the right medicine for the disease. So they take a risk when buying the medicine. Medicines available, are usually pain killers and for malaria.

Diseases break out in the rainy season but this year the situation is more serious than last year. More people have died this year than last year said an official of the Community based Health Care Program (CBHCP).

"While it is very sad we don't know how to take tackle the situation. We cannot enter the state. The Chin Back Pack health team also cannot reach that area.

Although the CBHCP makes treatment available to villages as much as they can, they cannot enter the village where diarrhea is rampant because of a Burma Army base. The army has been a silent spectator to the situation and they have done nothing for the patients. On the contarary the army comes in the way of CBHCP entering the village.

Eight people have died in the first week of June. Three villagers in Sabawngte Matupi Township , two in La Oo in Thantlang Township and three in Cakhang village near Mizoram state have died. – KNG.