{"id":397,"date":"2024-04-17T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=397"},"modified":"2024-04-17T18:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T12:47:41","slug":"altitude-sickness-deaths-increasing-in-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/altitude-sickness-deaths-increasing-in-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"Altitude sickness deaths increasing in Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Galeshwor (Myagdi) :\u00a0 Altitude sickness is emerging as a growing concern among visitors in Mustang. The district also known as the district beyond the Himalaya is home to the famous Muktinath Temple which draws a large number of devotees mainly from home and India each year.<br \/>\nIn the past seven months, 11 tourists including three domestic succumbed to high-altitude sickness in the district. The district records 29 fatalities in the past three years and 11 alone in the past seven months, according to the District Police Office, Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>The latest casualties include seven Indians, three Nepali and one Ukrainian, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bhojraj Pandey said.<\/p>\n<p>In the fiscal year 2078-29 BS (2021-22), six visitors: five females and one male: all from India died of altitude sickness. They were aged 45-73. According to the police records, they suffered high altitude-related health complications in Marfa, Mesokando Pass Trek, Muktinath Temple premises, Gharpajhong, Jomsom Airport, Lete, Tukuche, and Yara.<\/p>\n<p>Of the latest fatalities, six were reported in the month of Chait (March-April). The victims were aged 35-83.<\/p>\n<p>Last fiscal year (2022-23), the district witnessed 12 deaths resulting from altitude sickness and they were from India (seven), Thailand (one), and Nepal (four) and aged 42-75.<br \/>\nAltitude sickness is caused due to the body&#8217;s inability to adjust to a low oxygen level at a higher altitude. This happens normally at an altitude above 2500 meters and its symptoms include headache, nausea, vomiting, breathing complications, insomnia, loss of appetite, fatigue, weakness, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galeshwor (Myagdi) :\u00a0 Altitude sickness is emerging as a growing concern among visitors in Mustang. The district also known as the district beyond the Himalaya is home to the famous Muktinath Temple which draws a large number of devotees mainly from home and India each year. In the past seven months, 11 tourists including three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himalayan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}