Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Cholera outbreak in five villages
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Guwahati, May 11: An outbreak of cholera has been reported from five villages under Gohpur subdivision in Sonitpur district of Assam with 245 people detected with the disease.
The serious patients are being treated at Gohpur civil hospital but no death has been reported so far.
The villages where the outbreak has been recorded are Ek Knong Sakala, Dui Knong Sakala, Ek Knong Hakura, Rajabari and Aunibari. These villages are mostly Mising-inhabited.
Health officials had initially suspected the villagers to be suffering from diarrhoea. But medical tests of five patients at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital here on May 4 confirmed it to be cholera.
Health officials are claiming that the situation has been brought under control.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110512/jsp/northeast/story_13969090.jsp
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Guwahati, May 11: An outbreak of cholera has been reported from five villages under Gohpur subdivision in Sonitpur district of Assam with 245 people detected with the disease.
The serious patients are being treated at Gohpur civil hospital but no death has been reported so far.
The villages where the outbreak has been recorded are Ek Knong Sakala, Dui Knong Sakala, Ek Knong Hakura, Rajabari and Aunibari. These villages are mostly Mising-inhabited.
Health officials had initially suspected the villagers to be suffering from diarrhoea. But medical tests of five patients at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital here on May 4 confirmed it to be cholera.
Health officials are claiming that the situation has been brought under control.
...
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110512/jsp/northeast/story_13969090.jsp