The Hindu 19.12.2011
Focus on solid waste management
Management of slaughter house waste and other solid
wastes are among the top projects that have a common thread among the
people in the district.
According to the projects
that have been sent to the district Health as part of the Comprehensive
Health Plan under the 12
{+t}
{+h} Five-Year Plan, a number of villages and towns in the district have
taken it up as one of the leading health-hazard projects.
The State is yet to adopt a viable waste management
system in spite of the fact that this has been one of key issues for
which the government has provided budgetary support.
Among the other key projects is sewage management and mosquito eradication.
Some
of the other key projects proposed by various panchayats and
municipalities are for lifestyle disease management. Pain and palliative
care, important for the terminally ill patients, should be made
available locally. This is the concern of the people that has suggested
the Health authorities to plan for such care for patients who need not
be taken to far off places to relieve them of pain.
Various
panchayats have also asked the Health authorities to come up with
education and communication programmes with respect to a number of
diseases on a regular basis. This request perhaps has been a result of
the unchecked rise in water-borne diseases this year that resulted in a
lot of morbidity.
All these projects are being consolidated by the district Health authorities and would be submitted to the State.