Gopalpur: An army personnel identified as Nabakrushna Nayak, 26, succumbed at Kaithapalli village under Rangeilunda block Thursday night in Ganjam district’s first dengue casualty this year.
As per reports, Nabakrushna had been working as a soldier in the Indian Army for the last six years. He was posted at Leh in Laddakh and was transferred to Punjab last August 24.
Nabakrushna returned to his village August 29. Unfortunately, the jawan caught fever and it did not subside despite taking medicines prescribed by doctors. As his condition deteriorated he was admitted to the district headquarters hospital at Berhampur, Wednesday.
He was diagnosed positive for dengue fever by the doctors there. However, despite all efforts by the doctors, Nabakrushna died while undergoing treatment Thursday night. A pall of gloom descended on his village after the news spread.
A team of soldiers from Gopalpur military station under the leadership of Subedar Uddham Singh reached the village before his funeral and gave the deceased jawan three-volley salute as villagers sloganeered ‘Nabakrushna Amar Rahe’.
The family members of the deceased jawan were crest-fallen after the death of Nabakrushna.
PNN