According to health officials, there have been four suspected deaths in Maharashtra from Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare nerve condition, while there have been 140 cases reported in the state thus far.
At the nearby Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s Yashwant Rao Chavan Memorial Hospital, a 36-year-old man passed away from “trauma to the respiratory system due to pneumonia.”
A 60-year-old man from the Dhayari neighborhood off of Sinhgad Road here was the fourth probable victim; he passed away on Friday. The man’s lower limb weakness and loose motions led to his hospital admission on January 27. According to the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) health department, he passed away from cardiac arrest.
State health officials report that 98 out of 140 suspected individuals had a confirmed diagnosis of GBS. According to the official announcement, “26 patients are from Pune city, 78 are from recently added villages in the PMC area, 15 are from Pimpri Chinchwad, 10 are from Pune Rural, and 11 are from other districts.”
After that, no new cases were documented. Pune and the neighbouring districts account for the majority of cases reported in the state.
Eight water sources were discovered to be contaminated out of 160 water samples that were delivered to the Public Health Laboratory for chemical and biological analysis from various locations throughout Pune city.
According to an official, one of the samples taken from private borewells near Sinhgad Road had Escherichia coli, also known as E. coli bacteria.
According to him, a high bacterial concentration can result in a GBS infection, and E. coli in water is an indication of fecal or animal waste contamination.
The Pune Municipal Corporation has been gathering water samples from wells and borewells for investigations since the rise in GBS cases in Nanded, Kirkatwadi, Dhayari, and other communities along Sinhgad Road.
-Raja Aditya
