Chief Secretary directs swift action on disease outbreaks and flood preparedness

Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand connected Friday directed District Collectors to enforce strict preventive measures against seasonal diseases specified arsenic diarrhoea and gastroenteritis (GE), portion remaining connected precocious alert for imaginable floods successful the Godavari and Krishna stream basins. Addressing the Collectors via video league from the Secretariat, Mr. Vijayanand said that whenever cases of diarrhoea oregon GE are reported, affected areas indispensable beryllium afloat contained, aesculapian camps established, and each nutrient stalls successful those zones instantly closed. He emphasised the request to repair leakages successful drinking h2o pipelines without hold and behaviour regular prime checks connected manus pumps and borewells. “If lapses successful supervision pb to outbreaks, the authorities volition instrumentality strict enactment against the liable officials,” helium warned.

Referring to caller diarrhoea outbreaks successful Vijayawada and Guntur, the Chief Secretary underlined the request for accelerated involution to forestall nationalist hardship. He instructed municipal and panchayat raj officials to show h2o pipelines adjacent drains and rigorously enforce preventive measures.

Regarding the flood situation, Mr. Vijayanand noted that rising h2o levels successful the Godavari and Krishna rivers required vigilance, arsenic dense rainfall is forecast implicit the adjacent 3 days. Disaster Management Authority MD and RTGS CEO Prakhar Jain briefed him connected reservoir inflows and upwind conditions.