Overview
- Officials confirmed 16 deaths and three patients still under treatment in Rajamahendravaram, with 20 total hospitalisations between February 16 and March 21 and one discharge.
- Laboratory reports attribute the fatalities to multi-organ failure triggered by acute renal failure after consumption of milk contaminated with ethylene glycol.
- Varalakshmi Milk Dairy in Narasapuram was identified as the suspected source supplying over 100 families, and its milk distribution has been stopped.
- Police registered a case under Section 194 of the BNSS following a family complaint, detained the suspected milk vendor, and forensic teams collected evidence.
- Rapid Response Teams conducted house-to-house surveys of more than 300 people, emergency medical camps were set up, and Food Safety and Animal Husbandry departments sent milk and related product, water, and cattle-feed samples for detailed analysis as authorities say the situation is under control.