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District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) K. Vijayalakshmi connected Wednesday said that 50 wellness teams had surveyed 3,202 households successful areas affected by diarrhoea successful Guntur. In a property statement, she outlined the preventive measures being implemented to incorporate the dispersed of the disease.
Dr. Vijayalakshmi added that the District Collector had conducted a reappraisal with nodal officers from the territory medication and issued directions connected indispensable steps. Awareness campaigns are being carried retired extensively successful Balaji Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Ramireddy Thota, Yadava Bazaar, Seetharam Nagar, Pragati Nagar, and Sampath Nagar. The 50 wellness teams not lone identified individuals showing symptoms of diarrhoea but besides conducted consciousness programmes and distributed medicines and ORS packets wherever needed. So far, 11 radical with diarrhoea and 4 with fever person been identified and referred to hospitals. The Guntur Municipal Corporation is supplying harmless drinking h2o to the affected localities, portion large-scale sanitation drives are underway.
At the Government General Hospital, 185 diarrhoea cases were reported betwixt September 17 and 24. Among them, 104 patients are presently nether treatment, 81 person been discharged, and 8 of the recently admitted patients person already recovered. On September 23 and 24 alone, 17 caller cases were reported.
Of the 168 stool samples collected, 13 tested positive—three for Vibrio, 1 for Shigella, and 9 for E. coli. In addition, 163 drinking h2o samples were tested to hint contamination. Officials assured that each imaginable measures are being taken to forestall the dispersed of water-borne diseases.
