Jammu, June 28 -- A 75-year-old woman with co-morbidities died of diarrhoea and over a dozen were taken ill in Rajouri's Sakri village, prompting health authorities to send a team of doctors to the village on Friday, said officials.

Chief medical officer of Rajouri, Dr Manohar Rana said that 75-year-old Vidya Devi died Saturday morning around 4.30 am. "The patient had co-morbidities of hypertension with diabetes," he said.

Principal of the Government Medical College, Rajouri, Dr AS Bhatia informed that since Friday, a total of 26 patients with gastroenteritis were hospitalised at the district hospital.

"Four with acute renal failure had to be sent to the GMC Jammu because we don't have nephrologist in Rajouri hospital. Two patients, wh...