Docs and well being employees throughout inspection after a number of folks died after consuming allegedly contaminated water within the Bhagirathpura space of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on January 5, 2026. | Picture Credit score: PTI
Not less than 38 recent circumstances of vomiting and diarrhea linked to contaminated consuming water have been detected on Monday (January 5, 2026) on the Bhagirathpura main well being heart in Indore, with a senior official placing the dying toll thus far to seven.
Six sufferers have been referred for remedy, and 110 are at present present process remedy in hospitals, together with 15 in ICUs, officers stated.
Indore Divisional Commissioner Sudam Khade instructed PTI over the telephone that seven deaths have been reported thus far, as per the well being division.
Until the day prior to this, officers had been sustaining six fatalities linked to the water contamination. Locals, nevertheless, have claimed 17 deaths as a result of outbreak.
The well being division on Monday (January 5) performed a real-time family survey utilizing the Kobo instrument within the affected Bhagirathpura space to evaluate the scenario and make sure the availability of chlorinated consuming water to residents.
The survey adopted coaching on the Kobo instrument, imparted by the Central authorities’s regional well being director Dr. Chandrashekhar Gedam, in coordination with the district administration. The instrument permits real-time evaluation of discipline circumstances, officers stated.
Below the route of Chief Medical and Well being Officer (CMHO) Dr. Madhav Prasad Hasani, round 200 groups have been deployed within the space. Every group visited pre-marked homes and carried out surveys.
The groups distributed 10 ORS packets, 30 zinc tablets, and a Clear Water dropper at every family, in response to an official assertion.
Residents have been suggested so as to add eight to 10 drops of the clear water answer to 10 liters of water and use it after one hour for purification.
Well being groups offered counseling to residents and shared toll-free helpline numbers. They emphasised completion of drugs doses, boiling of consuming water, and displayed correct hand-washing strategies.
Every group comprised a health care provider, a nursing officer, a neighborhood well being officer, an ASHA employee and an ANM. The groups lined 2,745 households throughout the day, reaching round 14,000 folks, and carried out IEC actions, together with equipment distribution and counselling, it added.
Officers stated the principle goal was to make sure entry to chlorinated, germ-free consuming water within the affected space.
On the route of district collector Shivam Verma, 5 ambulances have been stationed within the space, and docs are deployed around the clock.
Sufferers are being referred to MY Hospital and Aurobindo Hospital, whereas affected youngsters are referred to Chacha Nehru Hospital. Free remedy, checks and medicines are additionally being offered to sufferers visiting personal hospitals, the assertion stated.
Revealed – January 06, 2026 07:09 am IST