Jaundice cases in Ahmedabad touch 269 in 10 days

Even as the Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC) continues its desperate attempts to check the spread of jaundice in the Heerawadi area in the north zone, 27 new cases of the disease were reported in the area on Monday. This has taken the total number of jaundice cases in the city to 269 in the last 10 days.

Meanwhile, the AMC has stationed a mobile dispensary with a team of 15 doctors in the affected area. An official of the civic body said, “We have deputed a mobile dispensary and doctors to examine residents of Heerawadi,” said an AMC official. On what had caused the outbreak of jaundice in the area, an official, who did not wish to be named, said that drinking water supplied to the area had got contaminated because of the AMC’s negligence.

“After the civic body demolished a public toilet in the area, it did not seal the drainage line of the toilet,” the official said. “Instead, it sealed some other line. As a result water from the drainage line got mixed up with drinking water and it got contaminated.”