Hyderabad: No preventive or precautionary measures have been taken in Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad from where cases of cholera were reported.
Two cases reported in the city were from Saroornagar and Mettuguda and patients are bing-treated at the hospital after culture tests confirmed cholera.
Hyderabad district medical and health official Dr P. Venkateshwara Rao explained, “No report has been sent to our office for action. If a report is sent, we work along with the waterworks department and collect samples of water and food from that particular area. In these two cases, no samples have been taken.”
The onus of sending the samples to the Institute of Preventive Medicine lies with the city health authorities and they have to collect and send it for testing. As no action by way of preventive measures has been taken; sensitisation has also not been taken up.
A senior health officer explained, “The original source of contamination in the 10 cases which have been reported in the last four months has not been identified due to poor communication between various health agencies. Officials have failed to act and the samples of both drinking water and food samples have not been taken or examined.”
