Health dept. issues alert against water-borne diseases in Kozhikode

The Health section has issued an alert against water-borne diseases successful the aftermath of the caller decease of a three-and-a-half-year-old miss from Kuttikkattoor owed to shigella infection.

A merchandise quoting District Medical Officer K.K. Rajaram said connected Thursday (March 19) that diarrhoea, fever, tummy pain, vomiting, fatigue, and the beingness of humor successful stools are the main symptoms of shigellosis, an intestinal corruption caused by the shigella bacteria. For hepatitis ‘A’, fever with assemblage pain, headache, fatigue, and nausea are the symptoms. Mr. Rajaram said that lone boiled h2o should beryllium utilized for cooking, and manus hygiene is simply a must.

Meanwhile, the section has begun preventive steps successful the Anakkuzhikkara country successful Kuttikkattoor. At slightest 3 much children are nether reflection astatine assorted hospitals. Some adults, too, person shown symptoms of shigella infection, it is learnt.