Before 2021, due to consumption of contaminated water hundreds of tribals used to suffer from vector-borne and water-borne diseases like typhoid, malaria, ADD (acute diarrhoeal disease) and others.
As a result, health facilities used to be crowded with both outpatients and inpatients. For instance, 8,071 ADD cases were recorded in this tribal-dominated district in 2015; 8,279 in 2016; 8,315 in 2017; 7,923 in 2018; 7,821 in 2019; 7,931 in 2020; and 4,116 cases in 2021 before dropping to 1127 in 2022.
