Guwahati (PTI): At least 60 people, mostly women and children, have died of diarrhoea in Assam’s Jorhat district since April this year.
Official sources said here on Friday that the water-borne disease has almost acquired an epidemic form and affected mostly tea plantation areas.
Jorhat Deputy Commissioner L S Changsan has asked the health and public health engineering department officials as well as the tea garden managements to take preventive steps in view of the outbreak of the disease.
The disease has also spread to neighbouring Golaghat district with the unofficial toll put at 37.
Several inspecting teams from the UNICEF, World Bank and Central government agencies have visited the two districts to take stock of the situation.
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