‘Focus is on averting outbreak of diseases’

Health teams reach cyclone-hit districts

December 02, 2017 11:29 pm | Updated December 03, 2017 08:05 am IST - COIMBATORE

CHENNAI, 17/06/2016 : For Tamil Nadu Desk : Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar. Photo: B.Jothi Ramalingam

CHENNAI, 17/06/2016 : For Tamil Nadu Desk : Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar. Photo: B.Jothi Ramalingam

The State government is doing all it can to prevent the outbreak of water-borne and contagious diseases in the flood-affected Kanniyakumari district, Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar said here, on Saturday.

Addressing reporters at the Coimbatore airport, he said that in Kanniyakumari, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts and other flood-affected areas, Health Department staff were working under the respective joint directors of health services to prevent the outbreak of diseases.

The department had moved mobile health teams from neighbouring districts to the affected districts to step up the work to contain diseases.

In response to a question, he said the department found it difficult to accept the demands of the post-graduate medical students that they should be given appointment right away. They still had nine months to go to complete the course.

He said the government would appoint doctors through a transparent counselling process.

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