Two dozen samples of potable water out of 64 collected by health department in lalkuan area after jaundice spread its tentacle in the area has failed test which says that water of hand pumps is not worth drinking. locals are panicked since the fact came to the fore.
According to sources, health department team collected 64 samples of potable water from areas, including Bengali Colony, Bazari Company, Subhash Nagar Khaddi, and Hathikhana, those reported several cases of jaundice. The health department examined the samples in which 24 samples failed test. Health department sources said that most of the samples of potable water collected from handpumps failed the test and water of the handpumps is not worth drinking.
Department officials claimed that their continuous efforts on prevention of the disease have brought desired results and situation is now under complete control. A special team distributed chlorine pills among the people and advised them to drink water only after boiling it. The department is also distributing potable water testing kit.
Eight teams of health department and a team of medical college carried out a massive door to door survey in sensitive areas, including Bengali Colony, Bazari Company, Subhash Nagar Khaddi, Vidyut Colony Ghodanala, Nageena Colony and Hathikhana and distributed Chlorine pills. During last fortnight, health department team distributed chlorine pills among 1453 persons during survey of 3,131 houses in the areas.
In-charge medical officer Primary Health Centre Dr NC Tewari said, "Health camp set up on the premises of PHC has done medical examination and treatment of 799 persons. It also collected 64 blood samples from the patients and diagnosed 41 of them with disease.