Finally Jaipur home to get treated water , after 12 deaths

mangaloretoday.com

Jaipur May 02, 2016: For the hundred-odd boys in Hostel No. 1 of the government-run home for persons with special needs, Vimandit Grih, here, Saturday is a new day. An afternoon music class is keeping them busy amid visits by politicians, activists and journalists. Outside, three staff members are emptying a large water tank, one bucketful at a time.

 

 

The visits as well as the clean-up have come after the death of 12 inmates at the home, eight of them female, allegedly from a bacterial infection. Seven of those who died were children. Nineteen others, who started falling ill 14 days ago, remain sick.


On Sunday, the Centre sent a five-member team, including a senior paediatrician, an epidemiologist and a microbiologist, to assist the state government in investigating the cause of the deaths. Union Health Minister J P Nadda also spoke to state health minister Rajendra Rathore.


Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Arun Chaturvedi denied contamination, “in the groundwater or the water used for drinking at the time”. “We have just received reports of analysis of the water samples. The infection was brought in by a staff member, Rahul, from outside. We believe it was through him that the infection spread to the children.”