Health officials reported on Monday that at least nine youngsters died from diarrhoea in the isolated Lazu region of Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district.
Obang Taggu, the Tirap District Medical Officer (DMO), reported that the children who died ranged in age from 3 to 10 years, and that numerous more had become unwell over the course of the previous week as a result of the diarrhoea outbreak.
Health officials asserted that the issue was under control and suggested that open defecation in adjacent water bodies, shrubs, and forests as well as drinking of contaminated water may be to blame for the deaths.
According to reports, the district headquarters in Assam’s Khonsa and Dibrugarh have provided water samples and the stool from the affected youngsters for testing. The DMO claims that the villagers’ superstitious claims that a bad spirit had infiltrated their community and spread the disease were to blame for the disease’s spread.
According to Taggu, an ambulance will be dispatched to the hamlet to transport critical patients from Pongkong, Longliang, and the surrounding areas to the district hospital.
Diarrhoea illness is the second most common cause of death in children under the age of five, according to the World Health Organization. PTI UPL RBT RBT
