A person died and other 1,500 people are suffering from diarrhea, fever, eye infection and other ailment in the flood-affected area in west Nepal, local Kantipur F. M. radio reported here on Saturday.

"A 60-year old person died of diarrhea at flood-hit Rajpur area of Bardiya district some 400 km west of capital Kathmandu," the privately run radio reported, quoting Ram Shakkar Dweep, chief of the district health office. "Some 1,500 people have become sick till Friday evening," Dweep informed.

"The infection is not only limited to flood affected villages but also in the camps where the displaced have been kept," he said.

Flood victims at Mahammadpur village of Bardiya district brought vehicular movement to a complete halt for an hour on Friday in protest against the delay in providing relief materials.

Meanwhile, Mathew Kahane, UN resident chief in Nepal, said Friday that the flood-victims were in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

"The flood victims should be provided food, abode, clothes, drinking water and medicines immediately," Kahane told reporter in west Nepal after visiting the flood and landslide-hit areas.

Source: Xinhua