Chief medical officer, Dr Alok Kumar, said, "The health department's team led by Bisalpur-based community health centre's medical officer in-charge, Dr Lekh Raj Gangwar, would carry out blood tests of those suffering from the fever via ‘card blood test' method. ""Once the nature of the fever is diagnosed, we shall deploy special medical teams to provide the appropriate treatment and medicines to the villagers on a war footing. Another villager, Shaukat Hussain, said his sister, Tarranum, 19, died the same day in another private health facility. She suffered "a stroke of hyperpyrexia" four days ago, he added.Jan Mohammad lost his 20-day-old son on Tuesday after the child was undergoing treatment for high fever for four days. Ramasare Lal, another grieving man, said his wife, Sunita Devi, 45, died on Tuesday after battling similar fever-like symptoms for five days.