4-year-old dies after drinking polluted water from abandoned borewell in Palghar

A four-year-old boy died after allegedly drinking water from an abandoned borewell at Kondalgaon-Jambulpada village in Wada taluka on Monday

A four-year-old boy died after allegedly drinking water from an abandoned borewell at Kondalgaon-Jambulpada village in Wada taluka on Monday. Seven others, who also drank the polluted water, fell sick. One of them is admitted to a hospital while others were discharged.

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The boy drank the water on Friday and fell ill, following which he was taken to Kudus PHC. He was then shifted to Wada Rural Hospital where he died on Monday evening. A government doctor said the victim got diarrhoea after drinking the polluted water.

Dr Dayanand Suryawanshi, district health officer, Palghar, said he visited the village and health officials took water samples of the borewell along with three other borewells and sent the samples for analysis to the government lab at Thane.

The police are awaiting the post mortem report. “After the post mortem report, we can come to a conclusion about the cause of the boy’s death due to waterborne diseases,” said the medico. “Meanwhile, we will be conducting medical camps in the above village to control the spread of such water-borne diseases due to the monsoons,” he said.