According to a communiqué from the Corporation of Chennai, 18 patients were being treated at the Communicable Diseases Hospital in Tondiarpet while 11 were being rehydrated at Kilpauk Medical College. “All the patients are being tested for cholera and the test results are awaited from the King’s Institute of Preventive Medicine,” said an official. Meanwhile, the corporation is on full control mode - not only have they chalked down all the cases as mere diarrhoea, they have categorically stated that the woman’s autopsy showed that she had not died of cholera. Also, officials thronged the Ozone kuppam area, conducted a medical screening and took water samples from the area.
Having asked Metro Water to supply fresh drinking water to all affected areas, corporation officials said that they have planned to distribute 45,000 chlorine pills as a preventive to cholera. However, when Express visited the slums on Saturday afternoon, the sewage was yet to be cleared effectively.
Even as the test results are likely to show that these are only sporadic incidents of cholera or ADD, this may serve as reminder for health department that monsoons are only two months away.
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