Karnataka: Woman dies of diarrhoea

[Ronan Kelly]

Woman dies of diarrhoea
TNN, Aug 8, 2010, 10.24pm IST

KARWAR: The death toll due to diarrheoa in the last three months has risen to four in Haliyal taluk. The death of Yallavva Parashuram Manalakar of Satnalli village in the taluk on Friday has raised concerns among the health officials.

Tahsildar Aziz Desai and senior health officials visited the village to take stock of the situation. Desai said contaminated drinking water is causing diarrhoea. They have appealed to the people to drink only hot water to keep the disease at bay.

The patients are being treated at a community hall in the village while those with severe illness have been shifted to Alnavar and Dharwad. Sources said the epidemic is rampant in and around Satnalli village.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Karnataka: Woman dies of diarrhoea

Woman dies of diarrhoea
Correspondent

Karwar: A woman died of diarrhoea in Satnalli village in Haliyal taluk on Tuesday. Tulasa N. Badiger (44) was admitted to a private hospital last week. When her condition deteriorated, she was shifted to a medical college hospital in Hubli where she died.

With this, two persons have died of diarrhoea in the village in a span of a week.

On August 3, Yalluki Jeevanappa Kaktikar died of diarrhoea.

The village residents say that another person called Narayan had also died of diarrhoea recently. But the health officials say that Narayan was suffering by anemia and gangrene and he did not die of diarrhoea.

The Health Department officials have treated 240 patients suffering from diarrhoea in the last fortnight.

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