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.

The Times of India       12.09.2014 

Surat Municipal Corporation medical and cleaning team in Vadodara to help from floods

SURAT: Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has sent a team of 300 workers to Vadodara for help in cleaning up of the city after the flood waters recede. It has also sent three teams of medical and paramedical forces to help in arising disease spread situation after the waters recede.

Floods engulfed Vadodara city this week and to help the citizens there Niranjan Janjmera, Surat Mayor had offered help. As a gesture of helping hand , 300 member strong cleaning workers team equipped with cleaning equipment's, disease control medicines, insecticides and other required material is dispatched.

SMC cleaning team at present is working in cleaning up Akota area of Vadodara city under the supervision of 6 supervisors. They have 4 trucks, 2 vans, 150 sacks of insecticide powder, disease control spray and other material at their disposal.

Three teams of medical practitioners including 3 medical officers in each team with paramedical staff and other people also has reached Vadodara and would start their work immediately as soon as the area is assigned to them. "It is our duty to help our brethren in need. Our teams will give their contribution in cleaning and medical aid wherever required. "Said Mayor Janjmera.