Amarwada sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Hemkaran Dhurve reached the village with a team of doctors and a camp was set up, where people were being examined
The national Heath Department has urged the public to take extra hygiene-precaution amid a diarrhoeal disease outbreak and rising cholera cases in the country.
At least six people have died and 71 others are hospitalised due to diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water from open sources in several villages in Odisha's Rayagada district, officials said on Saturday.