A 37-year-old woman, Sita Nayak, of Chaunriberhampur (Sweeper Colony) under the Kendrapara Municipality died of gastroenteritis at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, Congress leader and former Minister Ganeswar Behera along with several party workers paid a visit to the diarrhoea-affected village of Chaunriberhampur under Ward-13 of the Kendrapada Municipality on Sunday.
Behera distributed various food materials to people affected by the disease. Besides, the villagers brought issues of poor sanitation and potable water crisis in their village before him and demanded for renovation of their dilapidated houses.
later, Behera met senior officials of the district administration and threatened that the Congress would resort to strike if the demands of the downtrodden Dalits are not fulfilled on war footing.