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Chhindwara, October 16 (IANS) Panic spread across a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara after more than 60 people fell ill with diarrhoea, prompting the district administration to organize camps for comprehensive medical check-up. Officials gave this information on Thursday.
Villagers fell ill, suffering from vomiting and diarrhea – many of them were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
However, according to Chhindwara Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Hemkaran Dhurve, they all recovered in the next few hours after medical treatment.
According to official information, people fell ill after drinking contaminated water from a well in the village, which they had been using for many years.
Panic spread in the village as one after another people using water from that particular well complained about the same problem.
Taking immediate action in the matter, the district administration sent a medical team to Jarola village to conduct door-to-door medical check-up.
At least 120 people were examined during medical camps held on Wednesday and Thursday.
“More than 150 people were examined in the medical camps organized in Jarola village. At least 60 of them were found suffering from vomiting, fever, cough and diarrhoea. However, they all have recovered after necessary treatment,” SDM Dhurve told media persons on Thursday.
Initial investigation has revealed that people have fallen ill after drinking contaminated water from the well.
“Water samples have been collected from wells and other water resources in the village and sent for testing,” the SDM said.
Chhindwara recently witnessed the shocking Coldriff cough syrup tragedy in which 24 children died in the last one and a half month, including four-year-old Ambika Vishwakarma, who was battling for life at a private hospital in Nagpur for over a month, who died on Wednesday morning.
After the unfortunate tragedy of Chhindwara, Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla said that there are 232 pharmaceutical factories in the state, which are being investigated.
He said that the health department teams are also checking the quality control system of those drug manufacturing units.
The Deputy Chief Minister said that each batch of medicines supplied to the state government is thoroughly tested, and private supplies are also being monitored.
He said that he had written a letter to the Tamil Nadu government demanding to know the name of the person behind issuing the license to a medicine manufacturing unit manufacturing adulterated cough syrup.
The Deputy Chief Minister also wanted to know whether any investigation was conducted before the license renewal.
He admitted that the tragedy in Madhya Pradesh happened due to lack of proper monitoring by the Tamil Nadu government.
–IANS
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