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Polluted water supply through the government pipelines has claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy while 124 others taken ill since last night in six wards of Hindaun city in Rajasthan’s Karauli district.
Devkumar Koli, a resident of Shahganj who developed symptoms of dehydration, vomiting and diarrhea, was declared brought dead at the Hindaun government hospital, District Collector Ankit Kumar Singh told SNS citing the medical report of the deceased.
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“It is, however, yet to be confirmed whether the boy died of suspected contaminated water,” Singh said.
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Among the sick, 17 patients have been referred to Jaipur’s SMS Hospital, and ten to Karauli district headquarter, the collector informed, adding most of them were said to be out of danger while some others were discharged during the day.
A total of 55 patients are still under treatment at Hindaun city hospitals.
People living in the localities of Chaube Pada, Vyaniya Pada, Kajipada, Shahganj, Thakar Potha and Purnai Kachahari wards were hit hard by the polluted water supplied through mixed pipelines, the government supply as well as the illegal pipelines passing through sewerage, Dr Mahesh Joshi, the PHED Minister, told SNS.
Entire areas were having more than 50 years of pipeline network including illegal connections and most of them have been hooked to water pumps, the Minister said, adding even when the water supply was off residents used to run the water pumps and that caused now serious nature of contamination of fecal matter.
Since morning, the water supply was stopped, medical teams were rushed to monitor the health of patients, medical camps were organised, water samples were collected, and freshwater tanks were deployed in sufficient numbers, the Minister who is monitoring the situation from Jaipur claimed.
Dr. Joshi said a committee would be set up to investigate the matter, conditions of old pipelines and illegal connections and no one would be spared if found guilty.
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