PUDUKOTTAI
As many as 4,196 medical camps have been conducted in the district following the cyclone with 2.78 lakh people having been screened. Works to prevent outbreak of diseases in the wake of the cyclone were going on a war-footing involving officials of the Public Health Department.
Mobile medical camps were being conducted in the cyclone-affected areas to screen people and advising higher treatment for them if they required. Doctors and para-medical staff from other districts had been deployed and provide medical assistance.
In all, 77 mobile medical teams comprising doctors from neighbouring districts were visiting every village to screen people. So far, 2.78 lakh people have been screened and given advice through 4,196 medical camps, Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar said in a release on Sunday.
Drinking water mixed with chlorine was being supplied to people, he said adding that 76 chlorination teams had been constituted involving sanitary inspectors.
Around 105 tonnes of bleaching powder had been procured to spray them in residential localities and streets. A separate team has been constituted to prevent spread of communicable diseases.
The Minister said power supply had been completely restored in the Pudukottai Medical College Hospital and 13 Government Hospitals in the district after the cyclone. Power supply had also been restored in majority of the primary health centres and generator sets had been provided to ensure round-the-clock power supply in those primary health centres where electricity supply was yet to be restored.
Stating that medicines were in sufficient stock at all government hospitals and primary health centres, the Minister said medicines worth ₹ 90 lakh had been allocated to the district separately for medical relief works.
