Our Correspondent
Zirakpur, July 22
Potable water samples collected by the Health Department from various localities in Zirakpur recently have put city residents in a quandary.
A health team collected fresh drinking water samples at random from different parts in the city today. These samples would be sent to for a comprehensive bacteriological analysis to a government approved laboratory.
The samples were collected from the area after seven-month-old girl, Prabhgun, a resident of AKS Colony, tested positive for Cholera. “Presently, she is undergoing treatment at the GMCH, Sector 32, Chandigarh,” said sources.
Irregular, low pressure and unclean water supply has aggravated residents’ problems as the threat of diarrhoea, cholera and other water-borne diseases looms large over city.
Meanwhile, a team of doctors did not find any case of suspected cholera during a survey in the city.
The sources said samples were collected to check the quantity of chlorine in water for prevention of diseases during the monsoon season.
Health officials said teams conducted door-to-door survey of houses to chlorinate and spread of awareness on water-borne diseases.
Chlorine tablets and ORS packets were distributed by the Health Department in vulnerable areas of the city, they added.
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