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42 hospitalised with gastroenteritis in Bidar

By Our Staff Correspondent

BIDAR, JUNE 6. Forty-two persons were hospitalised with gastroenteritis in Chitaguppa town in Humnabad taluk in the last week. Unofficial estimates, however, put the figure of those hospitalised at 70. An equal number have been treated as outpatients.

Residents told The Hindu that the drinking water supplied by the town municipal council had led to the problem.

Doctors at the government hospital denied rumours that the disease was cholera. It was a case of "water infection," which could be treated easily, a senior doctor said. The situation is under control, he said. Heads of two private hospitals in the village, which have admitted at least seven persons, said that the patients were out of danger.

Rajkumar, a resident of the village, said that the drinking water received in taps was greenish last week and had a tinge of red in the last two days. H.B.S. Rajan, a private doctor, alleged that the TMC had not heeded his advice of treating the water with bleaching powder to disinfect it. "I have been telling them about this for one year," he said.

Shantappa Katagihal, who was attending on a relative in a hospital, said that most of the patients were from areas such as Bhaskar Nagar and Markhandeya Nagar as a pipe supplying water to these areas had broken, allowing sewage to mix with drinking water.

The Deputy Commissioner, T.K. Anil Kumar, said that the situation was under control and that no cases were reported in the last two days. "There was some problem with the water supply in the last few days, but it has been sorted out. We have all taken measures to supply clean water," he said.

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