KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 5,000 people displaced by last week's Saptakoshi flood, are suffering from various health related problems, and two of them died, local leading news websiteNepalnews.com reported on Thursday.

    Three Village Development Committees (VDCs) were in full inundation and four other VDCs partially submerged in Sunsari district bordering India, some 220 km southeast of capital Kathmandu, after the embankment of the Saptakoshi River suddenly broke down on Aug. 18.

    The displaced people are taking shelter at 23 camps in Sunsari district and suffering mainly from pneumonia and high fever.

    Health workers involved in treating the sick said that at least24 persons are in critical condition in hospitals.

    A medical team from military hospital is also treating the sick and the injured in 23 government camps in the district.

    According to doctors involved in treating the patients, lack of safe drinking water, sanitation and bedding in the camps is causing the number of sick inside these camps to increase.