Rains batter Punjab; medical camps established in highly affected areas
Chandigarh, July 11: With heavy rains battering most parts of Punjab, the Punjab Government has stepped up relief work in the flood-affected areas.
The machinery has been deployed to take all preventive measures to protect the lives and property of the people as well as to protect the livestock.
A spokesperson for the Punjab Government said medicines worth Rs 50,000 per district had been purchased and distributed at the tehsil headquarters to senior veterinary officers, who have further issued the medicines for the affected areas.
An amount of Rs 50,000 per district has been released for the purchase of medicines as per their demand in 11 flood-prone districts of Ropar, Patiala, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Moga, Jalandhar, Ferozepur, Kapurthala, Tarn Taran and Sangrur.
Apart from this, rapid response teams of veterinarians and staff had been constituted and deployed in flood-affected areas. Feed suppliers had been put on standby, if required, the spokesperson added.
The spokesperson further said the health department had also released a grant of Rs 12.5 lakh in district hospitals for smoothly carrying out flood relief operations and stock medicines, if required. Apart from this, rapid response teams have been constituted in all districts and nodal officers have been appointed to personally supervise ongoing flood relief operations.
Control Rooms have been established along with the operational phone number at the district headquarters. Permanent medical camps have been established at areas highly affected by floods. Civil surgeons and rapid response teams have been keeping a close liaison with the district administration to carry out activities at high-risk villages and the population affected by floods.
Larvicides will be sprayed for the prevention of outbreaks of vector-borne and water-borne diseases once the water starts receding. Districts are already equipped with larvicides, adulticides, and pumps. More than 7,500 health staff is pressed in the flood-affected areas.
Earlier, the Revenue Department had released Rs 33.50 crore to all DCs to deal with the flood situation The spokesperson said Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had already announced that the Punjab government would help the affected people in every way in this difficult time.
At least 14 teams of the NDRF and two of the SDRF (Jalandhar and Kapurthala) are working tirelessly in the flood-affected areas. Among them, three teams of the NDRF have been deployed in Mohali, five in Rupnagar, two in Patiala, one each in Jalandhar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur and SBS Nagar.
Apart from this, three teams have been put on alert. More than 9,000 persons have been evacuated safely till Monday evening.
The Food Supply Department is distributing dry ration packets comprising glucose biscuits (two packets), water bottles (two), dry milk powder (40 gm) or two tetra packs of Verka Fino, bread (1 small loaf), pinni (2 pieces), plastic spoon(1), plastic cup (2) and candle (1), matchbox (1) in power cut areas in affected districts —Mohali, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Roopnagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Tarn Taran, Roopnagar, Kapurthala, Nawanshahr and Sangrur.
A demand of 38,300 packets has been received from the districts concerned in response to which dry food packets are under preparation in bulk quantity at Jalandhar, Mohali, Amritsar, Patiala and Ludhiana at five nodal points in the state, named MARKFED Canneries at Jalandhar (For Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Nawanshahr districts, Mohali Milk Plant (For Mohali, Ropar, Fathegarh Sahib Districts), Milk Plant Ludhiana (For Ludhiana, Moga Districts), Milk Plant Patiala (For Patiala, Sangrur Districts), Milk Plant Amritsar (For Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur).
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