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Nasrul Islam, medical officer, Primary Health Centre, Koduvally, said that the youth was travelling between February 27 and March 3 and had visited Chennai too. more-inThe Health Department is on its toes after the recent death of a 22-year-old man with suspected jaundice symptoms and the diagnosis of the disease among close to 30 people within the Koduvally municipality limits in the district since mid-February. Treatment providedK.
Muraleedharan, health inspector, said that since some patients hailed from Malappuram district, information on them had been passed on to their counterparts in that district through the District Medical Officer. He was shifted to the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, only after his condition worsened, and he died on Friday. Sources in the department told The Hindu on Sunday that the deceased youth, identified as Ajnas, was reportedly undergoing treatment in traditional medicine..