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Flood-hit areas turned grounds for infections

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Flood-hit areas turned grounds for infections
Flood-hit areas turned grounds for infections

Hyderabad,  Oct  7 :

After the Floods   now  it  is  the  turn of infectious  diseases to wreak havoc  in the flood- hit areas of  Andhra Pradesh. The  towns  and   villages which were  submerged under  water  for  the last   four  or  five days  in the  districts of  Mahabobnagar, Kurnool,  Kadapa, Krishna  and Guntur  districts  are now turning  into  the breeding  grounds for   diseases like acute diarrhoea , malaria, and  viral  fevers.

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With  the  health  staff not  in a position to reach  the  interior  villages   due  to  damaged  roads  and  disrupted traffic,  people  fear  that epidemics may  break out  in these flood-hit  regions  if  precautionary  measures  are not taken and  preventive  medicines are  not   supplied. Cases of diarrhoea have already been reported in the hospitals of these flood-hit  regions. According to the medical officers   if the slush and  animal carcasses are not cleared immediately, the condition could may turn out  to be more severe.

Infections  can spread like  any  thing  because debris  and   the slush  in large  areas of the flood-hit regions  are  still  not  yet  cleared. Treatment  can  be  provided to the infected people  but  unless they  are  supplemented  by  clean  surroundings  and hygienic  drinking  water all the  efforts to  keep them  away  from the infectious  diseases will go in the  drain, bemoaned a medical officer.

As per  reports reaching  Hyderabad, chlorine tablets  and  bleaching powder packets  have been  distributed  in the flood hit areas. But  people living  in the  accessible  regions   received  them while  some  living in the interior  villages   did  not  receive  any  such  help. The  irony is  that  in places  like  Kurnool  and Mahaboobnagar,  the  health officials  who  are involved  in the health camps  orgainzed by  the Government   are themselves  hit  by  these infectious diseases.