By IANS,
Lucknow : At least 50 people of Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district have been hospitalised during the last 24 hours, an official said Tuesday.
“We are still not able to ascertain what made these people ill,” Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Barabanki Rakesh Raman told IANS.
All the patients have been admitted to the district hospital here, where the condition of 20 people is stated to be serious. “Though the exact cause behind the incident is yet to be established, the number of the patients reflects an outbreak of infectious diseases in the district,” said Raman.
A majority of the patients admitted to the hospital are from Saadatganj and Anoopganj locality of Barabanki, about 40 km from here.
Health officials do not rule out the possibility of spurt in water-borne diseases and other infectious diseases in the district.