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‘Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister has sent a medical team to a village in the state where an epidemic like situation has broken out with many people taken ill.’
"A medical team has been rushed to Chongkhow village to take stock of stock of the situation," Longding District Magistrate Himanshu Gupta told IANS over phone. The Zila Parishad member of Wakka block, Matpho Kolong, said many people in the village were suffering from dysentery, fever, headache, jaundice as well as typhoid - which have led to the deaths.
Matpho said that Chongkhow, Chop, Khannu and Kampong villages were facing acute shortage of food because of frequent landslides.
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He has called for improvement of the hygiene level and disposal of waste water and rubbish.
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