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Five caller cases of diarrhoea, linked to drinking contaminated h2o successful the Bhagirathpura country of Indore, the country's cleanest city, were recovered connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026), a Madhya Pradesh wellness section authoritative said.
Indore Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Madhav Prasad Hasani said the caller diarrhoea patients from Bhagirathpura visited the outpatient section (OPD) of wellness centres, wherever they were treated.
A full of 436 patients were admitted to hospitals since the vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak, triggered by proviso of contaminated drinking h2o successful the locality connected December 29, of which 403 were discharged aft recovery, helium stated.
According to the CMHO, presently 33 patients are hospitalised, of which 8 are successful intensive attraction units (ICUs) of hospitals.
The section medication has truthful acold confirmed the deaths of six radical owed to vomiting and diarrhoea caused by drinking contaminated water. However, section residents claimed 23 patients, including a six-month-old child, person died truthful acold owed to the outbreak.
Meanwhile, a committee from the city-based and government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College has submitted an 'audit' study to the medication connected the deaths of 21 radical successful Bhagirathpura.
Sources acquainted with the contents of the study said 15 of these deaths whitethorn beryllium linked to the vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak successful immoderate way.
District Magistrate Shivam Verma told reporters, "A committee of elder doctors from the assemblage was formed to analyse the causes of the deaths successful Bhagirathpura. This committee has submitted its report." Verma, however, did not supply circumstantial details astir the 'death audit' report.
He said immoderate fatalities successful Bhagirathpura were apt owed to vomiting and diarrhoea caused by unclean drinking water, but the deaths of immoderate patients were unrelated to the outbreak.
The committee could not scope astatine immoderate decision regarding the existent origin of decease successful immoderate different cases, said the elder bureaucrat.
He said the territory medication has truthful acold provided fiscal assistance of ₹2 lakh each to 18 affected families successful Bhagirathpura.
The District Magistrate said, "All the deaths successful Bhagirathpura are precise sad, careless of the cause. We are consoling the affected families and providing them fiscal assistance."
