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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) met patients and families affected by the vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak linked to water contamination successful Madhya Pradesh's Indore city.
He visited 4 patients undergoing attraction astatine Bombay Hospital, a backstage facility, enquired astir their health, and met their household members. Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari and enactment person Umang Singhar accompanied Mr. Gandhi.
Mr. Gandhi besides visited the Bhagirathpura area, wherever the outbreak was reported past month, and interacted with families of the deceased persons, expressing condolences and consoling them.
Police made elaborate information arrangements successful Bhagirathpura up of Mr. Gandhi's sojourn and installed barricades astatine respective locations.
Residents of Bhagirathpura person claimed that 24 radical person died truthful acold successful the vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak that broke retired successful the locality past month. The State Government, however, successful its presumption study earlier the Madhya Pradesh High Court, has pegged the toll astatine seven, including a five-month-old infant.
Meanwhile, a 'death audit' study prepared by a committee of the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College indicated that the deaths of 15 radical successful Bhagirathpura could beryllium linked to the outbreak successful immoderate manner.
The medication has paid compensation of ₹2 lakh each to the families of 21 radical who died aft the outbreak began. Officials person claimed that portion immoderate deaths had occurred owed to different illnesses and causes, authorities provided fiscal assistance to each bereaved families connected humanitarian grounds.
