Doodh Paniya: Bihar’s Village Where Time Runs Out Before 4

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00:00Imagine a village where living past 40 feels impossible.

00:07In Vihar's doodpaniya, premature death is now a sentence.

00:13Lalita Kumariya, 27, looks decades older than her age.

00:16A haunting sign of the disease's cruelty.

00:25The cause is still unknown.

00:30The oldest resident is 56-year-old Vinod Basra, who has been bedridden since 2019.

00:40He says his body started giving up little by little.

00:43His wife Purni Devi, 43, daughter Lalita Kumari, 27, and son Phillips, 19, are also afflicted.

00:48Backspent, body is wasting away.

00:55It starts with leg pain, spreads to back pain, then the waist down stops working.

00:59It feels like a lot of pain, and it's only 20 years old.

01:05Over 25 people in the village show symptoms.

01:07Six are already fully paralyzed.

01:09Since 10-15 years old, I've been dead in 10-15 years.

01:15In the past year alone, at least four people aged 30 to 55 died after months of suffering.

01:20Villagers claim to drown directly from wells in the past.

01:23The blood of the people who are drinking water, I've seen that it's getting more, more, more.

01:29Investigation so far.

01:30Health teams visited after media reports.

01:32Dr Subot Kumar noted bone and muscle degeneration even in 24 to 30-year-olds.

01:37Officials suspect mineral, vitamin deficiency and possibly contaminated groundwater.

01:41Public health engineering department has been asked to test water samples.

01:45Specialist doctors say the disease shows osteoporosis-like symptoms.

01:48These villages only plead.

01:50Test the water.

01:51Save our lives.

01:52For now, every day, more lives fade before time.

01:55Low.

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