A team of officials rushed to Mustapur Wadi in Humnabad taluk following a cholera outbreak in the village on Wednesday.
“As many as 34 cases have been reported from the village in 10 days. But no one has died of cholera,” said M.A. Jabbar, District Disease Surveillance Officer.
Some patients are being treated in Hallikhed-K and the rest in Humnabad. A team of five doctors and officers is camping in the village. An ambulance is stationed to attend to emergencies. Dr. Jabbar and Govindappa B.H., taluk panchyat executive officer, visited the village and spoke to the patients and their families.
Officers are saying open defecation might have contaminated drinking water sources that could have led to the infection. People drink water from open wells and bore wells, and there are some leakages in the pipes carrying water from water sources to the cisterns in the street corners. Infected water could have entered into the pipes through the leakages, a senior officer said.
Dr. Jabbar is supervising measures to check the spread of the disease in the village. Large-scale disinfection is being done using bleaching powder and other chemicals. Water quality in wells and bore wells is also being tested.
Gautam Arali, district Swachch Bharat Mission officer, and his colleagues are urging households in the village to build individual toilets with the help of the zilla panchayat.
After news of the death of a person in Mustapur Wadi spread, Zilla panchayat president Bharatbai Kodambal and Pavan Kumar Malpati chief executive officer, ZP visited his home. However, it was revealed later that he had died of a heart ailment in a private hospital in Kalaburagi.
