Collector Yashwant Kumar has instructed the health department officers to take appropriate steps for the precaution and treatment of seasonal diseases during rainy season in the district.
While reviewing the activities of the health department at the meeting of Jeevandeep committee held at the district hospital Narayanpur, the collector said that besides district-level combat team, block-level combat teams should also be made active along with necessary medicines. Along with storage of life saving medicines at the community health centres, primary health centres and sub health centres in the district, availability of medicine with the field staff should be ensured, he added.
Kumar said that by developing proper information system the situation of seasonal diseases should be constantly monitored. District Panchayat Chief executive officer Kartikeya Goyal, Chief medical and health officer Dr SK Kanwar, civil surgeon Dr MK Suryawanshi, members of Jeevandeep committee, block medical officer and rural medical assistants were present at the meeting.
For the precaution and treatment of seasonal diseases in the district the collector instructed the officers concerned that constant monitoring should be done through the field staff in the villages after marking the probable areas and problematic villages. Moreover, with life-saving medicines field staff should be kept vigilant in the unapproachable and problematic villages, he added.
He said that for the precaution of seasonal diseases chlorination should be done at the hand pumps and Nal-Jal schemes and bleaching powder should be put in the rural drinking water sources like wells and bavadis with the help of field health workers. And for that work cooperation from panchayat office-bearers and other field staff should be sought, he added.
The collector instructed to include doctors, paramedical staff and field staff in the combat team constituted in the district and keep them vigilant with necessary medicines, so that immediate assistance could be made available in any affected areas.