Via Times of India, sometimes is sad to read this kind of reports (read the last paragraph) but it's also an eye opener for the most us who has taken things for granted in life :
" CHENNAI: Diarrhoea is spreading southward. And fast. A week after the Communicable Diseases Hospital on the northern outskirts started getting more than 50 cases of acute diarrhoel disease (ADD) a day, the southern suburbs are now under the grip of the water-borne disease.
The Government Headquarters Hospital at Chromepet has received 123 patients with symptoms of ADD since May 26, much above last year's numbers. Samples of three patients have been sent to King Institute, Guindy for tests for cholera.
Results are expected on Friday. A majority of patients are from Anakaputhur and Pallavaram which face problems of open sewers and contaminated water.
Cases are also pouring in from suburban neighbourhoods like Tambaram, Nagalkeni, Hastinapuram, Keelkattalai, Kundrathur, Chitlapakkam, Thiruneemalai and Irumbuliyur.
And the unprecedented inflow of patients is proving to be a test on the ill-equipped hospital. For the last two days, K Vinoth, a 23-year-old driver from Kundrathur, has been lying on the veranda as all the eight beds in the isolation ward have been occupied."
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