Around 300 affected due to diarrhoea in MP's Jamli village

An outbreak of diarrhoea, apparently due to contamination of drinking water, is reported from Jamli village in the district where around 300 residents are prima facie affected, an official said today.

A team of doctors was rushed to the village today, following the complaints by people in the last two days.

Khargone Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Govind Gupta said the patients are being treated by a team of Health department.

"Contamination of water might have caused this outbreak. Camps are being run at the Panchayat Bhawan and Jamli Sub Health Centre. We are distributing medicines and ORS packets to the villagers," he said, adding the situation is under control.

Meanwhile, authorities have stopped the supply of water from the well in the village and engineers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department have collected samples of water for examination.

PHE Executive Engineer Santosh Shrivastava said they suspect that water in the well was getting contaminated due to a damaged network of pipeline there.

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