This is unprecedented. I have seen 15 to 20 children dying every day. I am pained because I am seeing them dying with my own eyes and sometimes I feel helpless.

Some 300,000 vaccines arrived today but it is of no use as we cannot administer them to those already infected.

It's too hard for us also to see so many children and to see some dying and some handicapped and knowing this is a ... disease that can be controlled by removing all pigs from society.

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Encephalitis is a perennial problem during the rainy season, but the situation appears to be quite alarming this time.