Jammu, Aug 30: With only 64 patients left at the district hospital Doda, the hilly Doda district has largely overcome the onslaught of diarrhea (gastroenteritis), while some fresh cases have poured in at Kaskoot medical camp and sub district hospital Banihal, official sources said on Monday.
 Over 2000 people in twin districts of Ramban and Doda have fallen ill after they developed gastroenteritis symptoms, sending a panic wave in the mountainous Chenab valley belt.
 Special teams of doctors were also dispatched to the far of villages of Dessa, Ganika, Bahrath and Ghath, with relatively high insistence of the epidemic, sources said 
  Sources said that out of 1347 patients admitted at district hospital Doda, nearly eleven hundred  have been discharged after treatment, while 18 were referred for advanced treatment over this period.
 One death of an elderly woman has been reported so far from the area, while over sixty patients are still undergoing treatment at district hospital Doda.
 A team of etymologists have found fetal matter in the drinking water which is being attributed to the outbreak of the epidemic in the area.
 The contamination of raw sources and rain fed streams due to floods triggered by recent incessant rains is also being termed as one of the reason of the infection.
 Meanwhile, following the reports about the spread of diarrhea in Ramban district, the department has established a camp at Kaskoot area of Banihal Block. So far over 390 patients were brought to the camp and given necessary treatment, while around 325 patients with similar symptoms have been treated at CHC Banihal 211, sources said  

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