Click to play videoNashik: Dondaicha, in the Dhule District of Maharashtra is facing an epidemic of gastroenteritis.
Hospitals in the district are overflowing with patients, and yet the administration has decided to overlook the situation.
One of victim’s son Anil Shirsat says, “I feel like going to the municipality and breaking something.”
Anil lost his father to the rampant spread of Gastroenteritis in Dondaicha. And this disease is claiming more lives. This has become a common situation here. The Dondaicha rural hospital has 50 beds, but 150 gastroenteritis cases.
The city hospital faces a similar situation. A total of 673 patients have already contracted the disease, and two have succumbed to it.
Janabai Mistry, a patient, says, “The water should be improved. If the water is improved, then the people will too. The municipality should be improved. What will the doctors do? They have gone mad looking after the patients.”
One look around the village, and the reason for the epidemic is clear. It's the river that runs through it. The Amravati river's canals mix with open gutters.
This river water is later supplied to houses. With the spread of the disease, the administration had decided to stop supplying this water to homes. Though the municipal councilor blames the residents of the area, and says that there's little that he can do.
Municipal Councilor Gulabsingh Sonawane says, “We had made a gutter separate from the river, but the people did not maintain it. It got so full that it overflowed back into the river.”
But the councilor's palatial mansion does not get its water supply from the river. Maybe that's why, for him, this situation does not warrant an urgent response.
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