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At slightest 50 persons fell sick and 7 of them are presently hospitalised connected relationship of depletion of contaminated h2o successful Ghatlodia country of Ahmedabad city, prompting the civic assemblage to behaviour surveys and deploy aesculapian teams, officials said connected Thursday (June 4, 2026).
Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to State officials and took banal of the situation, arsenic the reports of diarrhoea and vomiting outbreak successful the country caused a scare, reminding the locals of the recent h2o contamination calamity successful Indore.
"Gandhinagar Lok Sabha MP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Ahmedabad Mayor Hitesh Barot regarding the diarrhoea and vomiting concern that emerged successful immoderate societies of Gota Ward successful the North-West Zone of Ghatlodia Assembly constituency successful Ahmedabad," a merchandise from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party stated.
Ghatlodia falls successful Mr. Shah's Lok Sabha constituency. The Union Minister instructed Municipal Commissioner Banchhanidhi Pani and Health Department officials to instrumentality each indispensable measures, the merchandise said, adding that measures were being taken connected a warfare footing to repair the pipeline.
Health Department teams visited each lodging societies wherever diarrhoea and vomiting cases were reported and conducted house-to-house surveys, portion chlorine tablets were besides distributed for h2o purification.
"Officials person taken preventive measures, conducted door-to-door surveys, carried retired chlorine testing, and deployed aesculapian teams successful the area," said Dr. Bhavin Solanki, Medical Officer of Health astatine the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, adding that 19 h2o samples person been collected from the area.
"Seven of the 11 affected individuals remained hospitalized connected Thursday," helium told PTI, adding that the concern was nether control.
Technical Supervisors, Assistant Engineers and Assistant City Engineers are inspecting the information of each existing underground tanks successful assorted societies, said an authoritative release.
Wherever necessary, AMC has undertaken the cleaning of underground tanks and besides started supplying cleanable drinking h2o done h2o tankers, it added.
While section residents claimed that hundreds of radical fell sick aft drinking contaminated h2o implicit the past 4 days, commissioner Pani had stated connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026) that immoderate 50 radical fell sick aft a breakdown successful h2o and drainage pipelines connected May 30. The responsibility was repaired immediately, helium had said.
Rakesh Patel, president of Akanksha Apartment, claimed that astir 600 residents of the flat experienced symptoms specified arsenic diarrhoea and vomiting, adding that immoderate of the patients sought attraction astatine backstage hospitals.
His parent was receiving intensive attraction astatine Gurukrupa Hospital owed to terrible diarrhoea and vomiting, helium said.
The concern reminded galore radical of the scare caused by h2o contamination successful Madhya Pradesh's Indore metropolis successful December-January. As per the Madhya Pradesh government, 22 persons died successful Bhagirathpura country of the metropolis connected relationship of contaminated h2o supply.
