Tiruvannamalai: A five-year-old girl from Kanika Iluppai village near Cheyyar town in Tiruvannamalai district, Tamil Nadu, reportedly died after drinking mango juice from a local shop on August 10, 2024.
Health teams are conducting door-to-door inspections in the region to monitor any possible spread of disease.
The girl, R. Kavyasri, consumed a packet of mango juice that her father, E. Rajkumar, a 41-year-old farmer, had bought for Rs 10 from the local shop after breakfast on August 10.
A few minutes later, the girl was reported to be having difficulty breathing and was rushed to the District Government Headquarters Hospital in Kancheepuram for treatment. Doctors referred her to the Government Medical College Hospital in Chengalpet, where she later died.
The Dusi police have registered a case and his body has been sent for post-mortem. “We are awaiting the post-mortem report to ascertain the cause of his death. We have also intensified food safety checks in the district,” said district revenue collector D. Bhaskara Pandian.
Officials from the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine have formed health teams to conduct door-to-door inspections in the village. Each team consists of doctors, a village health nurse and health workers. They have also collected samples from the village’s water mains and overhead tanks to test for the presence of contaminants.
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