Bokaro: A diarrhoea outbreak has been reported in Gomia and Nawadih blocks of the district with more than 12 residents of different villages, including two members of the primitive Birhor tribe, affected by the ailment.The outbreak has sounded alarm bells for the district health machinery with offcials deploying doctors and initiating health camps in affected villages.Ranjit Birhor and Raju Birhor, resident of Tulbul, were admitted to the government hospital in Gomia. Rukmani Devi, a resident of the same village, said apart from her several villagers have been suffering with the illness for past two weeks. Many of them have been released from the hospital after treatment.People are being provided treatment at health camps set up in Tilyataand of Gomia Block and Pek in Nawadih. Besides, government health centres across the district have been alerted, said district malaria officer, Dr Arun Kumar Poddar. “The private hospitals also recorded few cases of diarrhoea in town these days,” Poddar added.Drinking contaminated water during the rainy season or even eating stale food are the main causes of diarrhea. The villagers are drinking waters from well and that without cleaning it. “We are taking precautionary measures to stop the disease from spreading,” added Poddar.

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