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Kendrapara, March 22: Twelve children in the age group of 2 to 15 years in two villages, Kakharuni and Balabhadrapur, under Pattamundai block of this district have been affected by jaundice for over a week, chief district medical officer (CDMO) Binayak Prasad Prusty said.
Meanwhile, medical teams from Pattamundai and the district
headquarters hospital Saturday visited the villages to take stock of the situation.
The teams collected blood samples from the affected kids and water samples from the tube wells installed in the villages. The samples would be sent to the pathology department and the microbiology department at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack for examination.
The exact reason behind the outbreak of the disease would be ascertained after the reports are received, Prusty said.
Use of contaminated water for drinking purpose is suspected to be the reason for the disease, according to the district health department.
Meanwhile, the department has asked the rural water supply and sanitation wing to disinfect the tube wells in the villages.
“We have started monitoring the villages to check the spread of the disease to other ares,” Prusty said, adding that the situation is under control and nobody has been seriously affected.
