More than 80 villagers in Azampur Dodiya village in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, fall ill after consuming contaminated water from a local well over the past three to four days, according to officials. Symptoms reported include vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. The state health department responds after receiving information on Friday by sending ambulances to shift seriously affected residents to hospital. Twenty-one villagers are admitted to a Civil Hospital in Piploda, where they are later discharged after their condition stabilises. Health teams set up a medical camp in the village, examine villagers, provide medicines, and conduct a door-to-door survey to identify any additional patients and ensure timely treatment. The well is sealed and drinking water is supplied through tankers. Officials also clean the well and collect samples for investigation; the reporting includes that stool samples are not provided by villagers, so blood samples are collected and sent for examination. A local health official says residents eventually recover. The department continues follow-up to check for further cases.
Contaminated well water sickens 80+ villagers in Ratlam; 21 hospitalised
More than 80 villagers in Azampur Dodiya village in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, fall ill after consuming contaminated water from a local well over the past three to four days, according to offici...
- More than 80 villagers in Azampur Dodiya village in Ratlam district report illness after using a well.
- Symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain over the previous three to four days.
- Twenty-one villagers are admitted to a Civil Hospital in Piploda and later discharged after stabilising.
- Health officials conduct a medical camp and door-to-door survey to identify additional cases and provide treatment.
- The well is sealed and drinking water is supplied via tankers while the well is cleaned.
The health department has conducted a door-to-door survey to identify other possible patients and provide timely treatment.
2 hours agoRatlam (Madhya Pradesh): More than 80 people fell ill after consuming contaminated water from a well in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district over the past three to four days, leading to the hospitalisation of 21 of them, who were later discharged, officials said on Saturday.The health department conducted a door-to-door survey to identify other possible patients and provide timely treatment. A medical camp was launched, and relief measures were undertaken.Chief Medical and Health Officer Kiran Wadia told PTI that residents of Azampur Dodiya village in Piploda tehsil, with a population of around 800, had been reporting symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain for the last three to four days.As soon as the department received information on Friday, Block Medical Officer Pawan Patidar sent ambulances to the village to shift seriously affected patients to the hospital, Wadia said.A health department team led by epidemiologist Gaurav Boriwal set up a medical camp in the village. Doctors and health workers examined about 80 villagers, distributed medicines, and conducted a door-to-door survey to identify other potential patients and provide timely treatment.Twenty-one villagers were admitted to the Civil Hospital in Piploda after they complained of vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pain. All of them were discharged after their condition stabilised.MP News: After Indore Tragedy, 27 Fall Ill Due To Contaminated Drinking Water In MhowThe contaminated well was cleaned, Wadia added.She said villagers declined to provide stool samples for laboratory testing. The department instead collected blood samples and sent them for examination.Village sarpanch Samarth Mal Kharol told PTI that the well had been sealed and drinking water was being supplied through tankers.He said all the affected villagers had recovered.Kharol added that villagers preferred the sweet water from the well because they did not drink piped water, which they found bland. The well was recently cleaned after water was pumped out using a motor, he added.MP News: Ratlam's Mahi River Project To Provide Clean Drinking Water To 630 Villages, 5 Urban Bodies
4 hours agoThe State Health Department has conducted a door-to-door survey to identify other possible patients and provide timely treatment
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