Suspected jaundice caused by water contamination which has gripped the DD Nagar of Raipur city has officials on Monday reportedly finding that at least two members in each of the family of residents sick in the locality.
However, the sickness of residents does not directly amount to all of them having Jaundice , officials said. The Health Department has carried out a medical examination drive in the houses of three hundreds families residing in the DD Nagar locality. Of them at least 40 people were found with Jaundice symptoms, officials said.
The Health Department has sent the blood samples of the residents for further examination. Sources said the outbreak of the disease was caused by the water contamination as sewer line passes closely from the pipeline that supplies drinking water to DD Nagar area.However, the Municipal Corporation swung into action only after a student of National Institute of Technology of Sector IV and a pregnant woman of lakhe Nagar area allegedly died of Jaundice.
The administration thereafter conducted a survey of each house hold with the help of nurses. On the first day, nurses visited the homes of 300 people and found 140 of them with some or other ailments. They were immediately sent to the health camps set up in Sector I and IV for medical examination. Civil surgeon Dr B K Das said 40 people out of the total 140 found with illness have Jaundice symptoms.
He said health of 86 people were examined a day earlier and blood samples of 19 of them had been sent for further examination. Of them 14 were found to have Jaundice symptoms. Those with Jaundice symptoms have been told to get admitted in the hospital. He said one or two people of each family in DD. Nagar have been found with different ailments. Apart from jaundice, people have stomach ache, headache, fever, loose motion and vomiting complaints.