State Medical and Health Minister Vidadala Rajini has asked officials to be on alert until the situation in Guntur, where 21 people took ill due to diarrhea, is brought under control.
At a review meeting with the Guntur district Collector Venugopal Reddy and other officials at the Collectorate on February 11 (Sunday), Ms. Rajini said that an enquiry into the incident has been initiated to find out the cause, water samples collected from affected areas and a committee of five members appointed to look into the issue.
She asked concerned officials to spread the word among people in the affected areas that clean water would being supplied through tankers, and they could make use of it. Asking officials to focus on door-to-door survey, she added that there should be no room for carelessness.
