Madikeri: Nine more persons were reportedly suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea at Balaji village in the Mayamudi Gram Panchayat limits in Kodagu district, and were being treated at Gonicoppa Community Health Centre, according to a press release received here on Wednesday. Balaji village comes under the Balele Primary Health Centre.
Health workers and ASHA volunteers have been deputed to the spot to attend to the patients, according to the District Health Officer.
People living in villages in and around Balaji have been advised to maintain personal hygiene and drink only purified water. Steps have been taken to chlorinate water sources in the villages and tablets have been supplied as a precautionary measure.
Efforts were on to prevent the spread of dengue and chikungunya in Karike village, which comes under Bhagamandala Primary Health Centre. District Health officials had confirmed four cases of dengue in Karike on Tuesday. Four teams of health officials had been constituted to visit households in Karike village. Apart from doctors in the Ayurvedic Hospital in Karike, medical officers from the Napoklu and Bhagamandala primary health centres are at work in Karike.
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