The Times of India 12.09.2014
Clean-up operations start on warfooting
VADODARA:
Health and sanitation departments have started work on a war footing to
avoid any disease outbreak as Vadodara started recovering from the
flood situation.
Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has
started a sanitation drive. “Water level in almost every residential
colony has receded. Our priority is to clean up all the main and
arterial roads. We have deployed thousands of sanitation workers across
the city who will be working round the clock,” said municipal
commissioner Manish Bharadwaj.
VMC has also brought in 300
sanitation workers from Ahmedabad and Surat to speed up the cleaning.
The civic body has already removed 500 metric tonnes of garbage from the
city in the last 24 hours.
Around 117 medical and paramedical
teams started surveying and supplying precautionary medicines in the
flood-hit areas on Thursday. While 21 medical teams from Vadodara
Municipal Corporation (VMC) along with six teams from SSG Hospital
covered the city, 90 teams from district health department surveyed
Waghodia, Savli and Dabhoi talukas along with other rural areas.
“Our teams covered the entire district on Thursday and they will follow
it up with another precautionary disinfecting drive on Friday,” said
VMC’s medical officer Dr Devesh Patel.
The authorities have
assigned one disinfectant fogging machine for each ward in the city
along with 81 smaller machines to reach narrower lanes and inside homes.
Community health centres and primary health centres (PHC) in the
district started functioning on Thursday while Goraj PHC which was badly
affected by the floods remained partially functional.
Four
major hospitals of the city – SSG Hospital, Metro Hospital, Narhari
General Hospital and Kashiba Children’s Hospital – had become
inaccessible on Wednesday. However, with water levels receding, they
became accessible on Thursday.
