AMARAVATI wEDNESDAy 9 DECEMBER 2020 5 Health Minister inspects Nationwide strike hits overhead tanks, water pipelines normal life in EG dist HANS NEWS SERVICE KAKINADA l Appeals people not to be panic with the the Bharat Bandh call given by mystery illness farmers’ associations and polit- ical parties protesting against l Says medical camps are the Union government’s new arranged at 62 places in farm laws on tuesday partially the city and people can hit the normal life in Kakinada. visit the camps to get According to the instructions, treatment APSrtC cancelled the bus serv- ices till 1 pm. the Left and Con- l 108 ambulances are also gress leaders and activists kept ready for the staged a protest in front of the convenience of the bus depots and formed human people chain at important areas like Bhanugudi junction, Main road in the city. Bandh also observed HANS NEWS SERVICE in several towns including Ama- ELURU lapuram, Pithapuram, Peddapu- ram and other areas in the dis- Bandh enforcers burning tyre at a junction in Kakinada heALth minister Alla Kali trict. Srinivas (Nani) visited the the protesters during the commercial establishments CPM took out a bike rally from colonies in 14 and 15 municipal massive rallies raised slogans were closed. Some of the restau- Bhanugudi junction and impor- divisions in eluru on tuesday against the farm laws which rants, wine shops and private in- tant junctions at several places and verified the water quality. would help corporates. Some of stitutions have been closed and in Kakinada closing down com- After the mysterious illness Health Minister Alla Nani inspecting water treatment plant inEluru on Tuesday the educational institutions the traders closed their shutters mercial complexes which were broke out in some parts of were closed down following the voluntarily. Some of the streets kept open. CPI and other oppo- eluru city three days ago, the tariat in 15 division. he en- tery illness. he appealed to the Kothapeta and checked out the instructions of the government. in the district wore a deserted sition party activists enforced health Minister was conduct- quired how the water was puri- people not to be panicked with drinking water quality and In several areas, the shops and look. Left Parties like CPI and closure of shops and markets. ing meetings with the officials fied by the municipal authori- the mystery illness and added spoke to the residents. and inspecting the drinking wa- ties and spoke to the residents. that the number of cases grad- Alla Nani conducted a meet- ter overhead tanks, drinking he also inspected the drink- ually decreasing on tuesday. he ing with the municipal officials maiah aged 13 years were brothers and residents of water pipelines and chlorina- ing water pipelines in other said medical camps were set up and reviewed the sanitation Two boys electrocuted rosaiah colony. on tuesday evening, the locals ob- tion of water in the city. parts of the city and instructed at 62 places in the city and peo- conditions in the city, particu- HANS NEWS SERVICE served the boys hunting birds with a slingshot in As part of it, the minister in- the officials to check the water ple can visit the camps to get larly in the areas where myste- the area. they tried to scale the compound wall of CHIRALA spected the water in overhead leakages from the pipelines. he treatment. he further said 108 rious illness cases reported. he the rice mill owned by Kurra Yugandhar, but re- tanks in Parameswara colony in said the state government was ambulances were also kept asked the officials to continue two boys died due to electrocution in Chirala on ceived a shock from the electric fence and died on 14 division and another over- taking all measures to diagnose ready for the convenience of the the sanitization drive four more tuesday. According to the Chirala II town police, the spot, said the police. they registered a case on head tank near the ward secre- the patients suffered from mys- people. he visited the days. the boys Koneti Anji aged 15 years, Koneti Naga- the incident and started the investigation. 5 arrested, gutka worth `25 lakh seized OFF ROAD, YET AGAIN HANS NEWS SERVICE KORUKONDA

North Zone deputy superin- tendent of police Kadali Venkateswara rao said that rs 25 lakh worth of Gutka and Khaini packets were seized in the raids conducted in Ko- rukonda and Pithapuram. Disclosing the details to re- porters at his office, he said the accused Vakkalagadda rama Subramanyam of Ko- rukonda, Nunna haranadh, Nunna Venkata Surya- narayana and Pachhigolla Appa rao of Kakinada, and tavva Suresh Kumar of Pitha- North Zone Deputy Superintendent of Police Kadali Venkateswara Rao displaying seized puram were arrested. gutka bags in Korukonda. Inspector Pavan Kumar Reddy also seen he asked the people to give information about banned items such as illicit liquor, gutka and khaini and about cockfights over the phone numbers 100, 94907 60790, 94409 04829 and 94409 04831. Inspector Pavan Kumar reddy, sub-inspector Vijay RTC buses restricted to depot -Photo: Ch Venkata Mastan Kumar were present. 20 fall sick after eating at restaurant

Victims of food poison l The victims, who had undergoing treatment at a chicken and fish dishes at private hospital in Ongole the restaurant on Sunday night, suffered from vomiting, motions and nausea at night l After inspecting, officials primarily suspect food poisoning occurred due to the fish and water l Officials collect samples for testing

HANS NEWS SERVICE ONGOLE ABoUt twenty people fell sick and a few of them were hospitalised af- victims, Shaik Khadar Basha and the if any, but collected samples only home, but six of them joined in two ter eating at the Barkaas Arabic local tahsildar Chiranjeevi. he said with the available food prepared on private hospitals as their condition restaurant franchise in ongole on that the victims claimed to have Monday, instead of the food of Sun- was serious. the tahsildar Chiran- Sunday night announced the offi- eaten chicken and fish dishes at the day as they received a late com- jeevi warned the restaurants in the cials in ongole on tuesday. restaurant on Sunday night and suf- plaint. Further action will be taken town to serve quality food to the the restaurant, a franchise of the fered from vomiting, motions, and on the restaurant after the test re- customer or face stringent action Arabic food restaurant chain that nausea in the night and few of them sults of the samples were received, against them. has branches in Mangalagiri, Vi- joined the hospital on Monday af- the food inspector added. however, Srinivas Duvva, partner jayawada, Guntur, eluru, rajah- ternoon as the situation deterio- one of the victims Khadar Basha of the ongole franchise of Barkaas mundry, Kakinada, and other rated. said that he along with six of his said that they serve quality food to places, was a hit locally immediately he said that a food inspector and family members went to the restau- the customers. he said that they after its launch in the town. the ho- the tahsildar inspected the restau- rant and all of them fell sick by serve fish supplied by the franchisor tel, which was famous for large plate rant and primarily suspects that night. he said his colleagues also and packaged drinking water only. serving, was recently reopened after food poisoning occurred due to the came to the restaurant at the same he also said that there was confu- the lockdown. the gazetted food in- fish and water. he said that the time and they were also suffered sion over the number of patients, spector ramayanam Nageswaraiah restaurant had information of the from the same symptoms. he said and he was trying to meet the cus- said that they received a complaint food poisoning by the afternoon and after receiving treatment from a lo- tomers to know what they ordered on Monday evening from one of the might have removed the stale food cal rMP, most of the 20 people went exactly and what went wrong.