JAJARKOT: Six more villagers have died of diarrhoea that has been spreading in the remote hilly district of Jajarkot for the past one month. Diarrhoea toll has reached 28 in the district where hundreds of people have taken ill. According to the district health office, Garche Singh, 24, Dipa Shahi, 23, Ujjwol Shahi, 60, and an unidentified kid of Garkhakot Village Development Committee and Anarupa Malla, 50, and Rupamati Singh, 32, of Khatigurta in Bhagwoti Village Development Committee died of the disease. Before this, 22 persons of Ramidanda Nayakbada, Sakla, Rokayagaon, Archhani and Talegaon VDCs had died of the disease, the district health office said. Principal Gorakh Bahadur Singh of Birendra Aishworya High School in Limsa said hundreds of villagers were suffering from the disease in more than a dozen VDCs of the district. He said the outbreak was yet to be controlled. 'The patients are deprived of proper treatment as the health posts lack adequate number of health workers and medicines,' he added. Chandra KC, principal of Birendra Himalaya Higher Secondary School, claimed that the traditional and superstitious beliefs of the locals to refer to shamans to cure their ailments was not helping the situation. Meanwhile, local residents claimed that they suffe-red from diarrhoea after consuming the cereals provided by the world health programme. The villagers claimed that the rice and lentils were of low quality. 'What can we do? We have to eat what we get as we have no other alternative,' a local lamented. However, chief of District Health Office Jajarkot Dr Krishnahari Subedi claimed the disease was under control. Subedi, who had reached the diarrhoea hit VDCs in the third week of May, had returned after he himself fell sick. The then health minister Girirajmani Pokharel, in his inspection tour in the diarrhoea affected VDCs, had promised medicines and health workers.