As per media reports, 52 residents of slum area of Mohali village were taken to civil hospital in Phase VI with diarrhoea-like symptoms on Sunday.

The reports added that six of the patients were children.

However, all of them are said to be safe.

A few of diarrhoea cases were reported on Saturday evening, but the number of cases increased on Sunday.

Dr. Avtar Singh, Civil Surgeon stated that the cases were reported from Street No. 2 of the village and the major cause behind the disease was contaminated water.

Dr. Singh visited the region together with his medical group and distributed chlorine tabs.

The health functionaries have collected water samples from the village for testing. They also took samples from Madanpura, Shahi Majra villages and Valmiki Colony.

Municipal council delegates also visited the village and claimed that the water supplied there was safe for drinking.

Mr. Inderjeet Singh Kang, Public Health Department’s XEN said, “The samples collected from the area are clean and the outbreak was probably caused due to water from some other source.”

Deputy Commissioner Prabhjot Singh Mand has asked the functionaries to take required steps to confirm the rising number of diarrhoea cases in the area.

In 2008, over 500 people from Majri, Sialva and Fatehpur villages of Kharar tehsil had been affected by diarrhoea and hospitalized after drinking contaminated water.