21-member panel to probe mysterious illness in A.P.
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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has constituted a 21-member excessive degree multi-disciplinary committee to examine the mysterious illness that affected lots of of individuals in West Godavari district.
More than 600 folks had taken ailing in Eluru and neighbouring villages with signs of neurotoxicity, and are present process remedy in Eluru Government General Hospital (GGH) and different hospitals.
Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney will head the committee and Principal Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) Anil Kumar Singhal would be the member-convener.
Experts from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Mangalagiri, World Health Organisation, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, National Institute of Nutrition, National Centre for Disease Control and Indian Council for Medical Research, who camped at Eluru and have been investigating the outbreak of the illness, and officers of assorted State authorities departments are members of the committee.
The committee has been requested to examine the supply of the an infection and recommend remedial measures.
“The committee has started its investigation. We are visiting the affected areas, interacting with the patients, their families and the local residents. We will visit the GGH and hold discussions with the doctors,” mentioned a committee member.
Th specialists visited Dakshina Veedhi, Kothapeta, Toorpu Veedhi and different affected areas and interacted with the residents.
The specialists enquired whether or not the affected folks have been consuming consuming water from faucets, borewells, tanks or packaged water (purified water), the signs they suffered once they fell sick, whether or not they had epileptic assaults earlier, if that they had seizures for the second time after getting discharged from the hospital, if some other relations was affected by neurotoxicity signs, and what number of instances have been reported from one locality.
Meanwhile, the medical camps arrange in the colonies have been persevering with in Eluru city and the ward secretaries and volunteers have been conducting house-to-house survey on the well being scenario in the district.
