A health department team, led by district malaria consultant Ramesh Singh, visited Mallah Patti locality of Lodna area in Jharia on Monday and carried out water container surveys in different households to detect the larvae of Aedes aegypti, which causes dengue. Blood samples have also been collected from over 30 suspected dengue and malaria cases for further tests, officials said.
Sindri: A 35-year-old woman identified as Malti Devi fractured her leg and got bruises all over her body after a portion of her house collapsed at the underground fire-prone area of Bastakola in Dhanbad’s Jharia on Sunday. The underground fires here have been raging for more than 100 years now.
Although the Dhanbad district administration and the Jharia Rehabilitation Development Authority (JRDA) claimed to have expedited the process to shift the affected families to a safer location, till date, only around 4,700 families of the proposed 1.04 lakh have been shifted to the Belgaria Township.
Malti was admitted to a private nursing home. According to reports, the land collapsed around 1am when Malti was on her way to the bathroom in the courtyard of her house. By the time she could scream for help, the wall of her toilet came crushing down and she found herself stuck in the debris. Luckily for her, her family members and neighbours heard her screams for help and rushed to rescue