Schools closed due to viral fever

Himalayan News Service

PARBAT: A school in the headquarters of Parbat district closed today after the students complained of viral fever.


More than 100 students are suffering from viral fever in Kali Gandaki Academy in Kusma for a week, sources at the school said.


"Students are showing symptoms like headache, dizziness and vomiting,” said Basanta Kumar Karmacharya, school principal, adding, “We were forced to close the school to stop the further spread of the disease to other fellow students."


However, Karmacharya said the school would reopen on Sunday.


Prem Poudel, school account said the spread of viral fever has also been reported in Namuna Residential Secondary School in Kusma. “We have asked the students to take rest at home,” he added.


Twenty-eight students living in eight hostels


have contracted the viral fever, Poudel said, adding, "We are treating the students and sending them home."


Similarly, a dozen students at the Rastriya Bal Shiksha Sadan, Adarsha English Residential School, Narayan Higher Secondary School and Shivalaya Higher Secondary School have complained of similar problems.