Authorities deployed doctors for door-to-door checks and distributed chlorine tablets to purify water
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\nAt least nine people have died and more than 200 have been hospitalised in the central Indian city of Indore after a diarrhoea outbreak that officials said was linked to contaminated drinking water, according to a lawmaker and local health authorities.
\nKailash Vijayvargiya, a lawmaker, said nine people had died in Indore.
\nIndore\u2019s chief medical officer, Madhav Prasad Hasani, told Reuters by phone that drinking water in the Bhagirathpur area of the city was contaminated due to a leak and a water test had confirmed the presence of bacteria in the pipeline.
\n\u201cI cannot say anything on the death toll, but yes, over 200 people from the same locality are undergoing treatment at different hospitals of the city. The final report of the water sample collected from the affected area is awaited,\u201d Hasani said.
\nShravan Verma, the district administrative officer, said authorities had deployed teams of doctors for door-to-door screening and were distributing chlorine tablets to help purify water.
\n\u201cWe have found one leakage point that could have contaminated the water and that point has been fixed,\u201d Verma said, adding that officials had screened 8,571 people and identified 338 with mild symptoms.
\nIndore, in Madhya Pradesh state, has been named India\u2019s cleanest city and has topped the national cleanliness rankings for the past eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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