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The weekly diseases surveillance report of the Ministry of Health and Child Care shows that 12 people have died of diarrhoea throughout the country, bringing the death toll so far this year to 183.

The city hospitals have been witnessing a rise in the number of diarrhoea and dehydration cases for the past one week.