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Now, the village population is in the hope that the newly formed Congress government would take the issue more seriously.Ahilya Netam of this ill-fated village breathed after suffering since the last one-and-half years because of a kidney ailment. They retorted that it was not possible to travel 250 kilometres for dialysis thrice in a week or sometimes on alternate days. The actual reason of her death is yet to be known.A special unit was set up for patients from Supebeda at Dr BR Ambedkar Hospital in Raipur by the Raman Singh government, but villagers said not many patients could avail the treatment. Due to lack of proper treatment in the backward district, Ahilya was taken to various health centres in neighbouring Odisha but she could not be saved.Ahilya’s family members said that she was also suffering from tuberculosis and died a slow and painful death, while as per government records, her name was also enlisted in the register of “renal patients”. RAIPUR: Still wrestling with a spate of kidney ailments, Supebeda village in Gariaband district lost another young life after prolonged suffering from renal ailment late on Monday, taking the death toll to 69 in a span of two-and-half years, even as hundreds of patients were diagnosed with kidney-related problems.Amid previous BJP government’s tall claims of resolving the issue fell on the wayside, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on his visit to the village as Congress chief in June last year, had promised the villagers of compensation and jobs to bereaved families, saying that he would take up the matter before the then government..