Water not safe to drink, 15 Ghaziabad hotels and colleges get notices

NOIDA: The Ghaziabad health department has issued notices to 15 commercial premises and educational institutions, including marriage banquet halls, after the drinking water samples collected from these premises were found to be spurious.
The teams from the health department collected 98 samples in April, in which 15 drinking water samples were found not fit for consumption, the officials said on Friday.
The health department had conducted checks at hotels, colleges in areas like Kaushambi, Rajendra Nagar, Sahibabad, Dasna, Pratap Vihar and Vasundhara.
“A notice has been served to all the premises owners with spurious water and the same information has also been sent to the concerned police station. The police will look into the matter as it concerns public health,” said Dr RK Gupta, district surveillance officer, Ghaziabad.
The department is also organising health camps at places where samples have failed the test.
During the Dastak campaign, 200 people have been tested for water borne diseases and hepatitis B and C and the samples have been sent for testing. Health officials said that consuming poor quality water can cause severe stomach infection. It can also cause hepatitis A, B and C and diarrhoea. At the OPD in government hospitals in Ghaziabad at least 15-20 patients report stomach infections daily.
These infections can have serious repercussions in patients, especially children.