Hospital authorities disclosed that initially only a few cases were reported on Saturday evening but, soon enough, more patients started pouring in on Sunday. All the hospitalized patients, which included six children, are stated to be out of danger.
Measures undertaken
Preliminary investigations by the Heath department revealed that all the cases detected were from Street No. 2 of the village. To tackle the problem, Civil Surgeon Avtar Singh visited the area along with his medical team and distributed chlorine tablets.
The medical specialists have collected water samples from different sources in the village for testing. They also took samples from Madanpura, Shahi Majra villages and Valmiki Colony.
Municipal council delegates also visited the village for inspection, but claimed that the water supplied there was safe for drinking. No leakage has been found in the pipeline supplying water to the village.
Mr. Inderjeet Singh Kang, Public Health Department’s XEN, said, “The samples collected from the area are clean and the outbreak was probably caused due to water from some other source.”
Hand pump water suspected of contamination
According to reports, in the absence of tap water, the slum dwellers have dug up shallow hand pumps in the area. The health officials suspect this may have contaminated the water, which could be the reason behind the spread of the disease.
Deputy Commissioner Prabhjot Singh Mand has asked the health department to take necessary steps to check the increasing cases of diarrhoea in the area.
Last year more than 500 people from Majri, Sialva and Fatehpur villages of Kharar Tehsil were affected by diarrhoea and hospitalized after drinking contaminated water.
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