Talking to UNI, Additional Director (Health) C B M Tripathi said 4,312 JE patients had so far been registered at various government hospitals in Gorakhpur and Basti divisions comprising seven east-UP districts.

Meanwhile, 21 fresh JE cases were reported in the region, while a total of 138 patients are still undergoing treatment.

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Patients from Maharajganj, Deoria, Sant Kabirnagar, Ghazipur, Mau, Azamgarh, Basti, Bahriach, Siddharthnagar and Kushinagar, Allahabad, Ambedkarnagar, Balrampur, Ghazipur and Ballia districts have been flocking to various government hospitals since the menace was first reported almost three months back.

Patients have also been trickling from Nepal and Bihar.