Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Over 200 villagers down with joint pains, fever
Correspondent
Medicines distributed to patients free of cost
Medical camp by KGH doctors likely soon
Water samples collected for testing
VIZIANAGARAM: Some 200 people, including six-month-old babies, have been suffering from ?joint inflammation and fever? at Veerasagaram village in Badangi mandal in the district for the last couple of days. Sarpanch of the village Nalla Vijaya is one among the patients.
The population of village is about 1,500 and it has 12 borewells and an open well.
On receiving information, Bobbili Municipal Chairperson R.V.S.S.K. Ranga Rao rushed to the village along with D. Ram Mohana Rao of Karshak Maharishi Hospital in Parvathipuram and conducted a medical camp on Wednesday.
Medicines valued at Rs. 10,000 were distributed free of cost to the patients.
Dr. Mohana Rao told this correspondent, that 200 persons were suffering from joint pains and fever.
?It is unprecedented and unimaginable. I have not come across so many people in a village suffering from flurosis. It must be due to excess fluorine content in water,? he said, adding, the patients would be crippled in the near future, if not tackled immediately. Dr. Rao will soon appeal to orthopaedics in King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam to conduct a medical camp in the village and treat the patients.
Report soon
Mr. Ranga Rao said RWS officials collected water samples for testing in Andhra University laboratory and the report was expected shortly. Arrangements would be made after receiving report from the varsity for supplying drinking water through tankers to the village, he said.
?It has been a recurring problem for many years but the local primary health centre made no efforts to bring the issue to light,? he lamented.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/08/stories/2009100852110300.htm
Correspondent
Medicines distributed to patients free of cost
Medical camp by KGH doctors likely soon
Water samples collected for testing
VIZIANAGARAM: Some 200 people, including six-month-old babies, have been suffering from ?joint inflammation and fever? at Veerasagaram village in Badangi mandal in the district for the last couple of days. Sarpanch of the village Nalla Vijaya is one among the patients.
The population of village is about 1,500 and it has 12 borewells and an open well.
On receiving information, Bobbili Municipal Chairperson R.V.S.S.K. Ranga Rao rushed to the village along with D. Ram Mohana Rao of Karshak Maharishi Hospital in Parvathipuram and conducted a medical camp on Wednesday.
Medicines valued at Rs. 10,000 were distributed free of cost to the patients.
Dr. Mohana Rao told this correspondent, that 200 persons were suffering from joint pains and fever.
?It is unprecedented and unimaginable. I have not come across so many people in a village suffering from flurosis. It must be due to excess fluorine content in water,? he said, adding, the patients would be crippled in the near future, if not tackled immediately. Dr. Rao will soon appeal to orthopaedics in King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam to conduct a medical camp in the village and treat the patients.
Report soon
Mr. Ranga Rao said RWS officials collected water samples for testing in Andhra University laboratory and the report was expected shortly. Arrangements would be made after receiving report from the varsity for supplying drinking water through tankers to the village, he said.
?It has been a recurring problem for many years but the local primary health centre made no efforts to bring the issue to light,? he lamented.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/08/stories/2009100852110300.htm
