Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today held a review meeting with the concerned officials regarding the mysterious illness plaguing the residents of West Godavari district's Eluru.
The CM met the doctors in charge of treating the patients, who were admitted after suffering from fits and nausea, and suddenly falling unconscious, to enquire about the treatment being offered.
He also asked the doctors whether they had been able to ascertain the cause behind the sudden illness through any tests that they may have conducted so far.
(While initially the illness was thought to have been caused by consumption of contaminated water, Deputy Chief Minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas said that tests revealed that this was not the case. This means that the cause of the illness remains unknown.)
The officials told the CM that there was no threat to the lives of the patients, and added that the reports of the patients indicated that they were healthy.
Further, they said that of 425 patients, 222 had been discharged, and 16 had been shifted to hospitals in Vijayawada and Guntur for treatment.
They also informed Reddy that the illness had affected people of different age groups.
A team of doctors was flown in from the AIIMS, Delhi, following the outbreak on Sunday which caused the death of one person and left at least 290 others ill.