By IANS
Raipur : The Chhattisgarh government has been holding emergency health camps and is providing medical facilities round the clock in Gabhora village of Kawardha district from where eight deaths were reported during the weekend.
Chief Minister Raman Singh has instructed officials of Kwardha district, about 250 km from here, to tone up health facilities in remote villages and provide free medical care to all tribals.
The instruction was issued after eight members of the Baiga tribe, a community on the verge of extinction, died last weekend in Gabhora village.
Six people, including three women, died Friday while two more people died Saturday. All of them had allegedly consumed wild mushrooms.
"About 40 Baigas consumed wild mushrooms last week. Eight of them died of food poisoning while the rest are unwell and have been kept under observation," a health department official said.
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