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Cabinet to discuss woes of Kannanthura residents

Staff Reporter

Health Minister visits coastal areas

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The health and sanitation problems of the people living in the Kannanthura ward, particularly those living in Wireless Colony and Rajiv Nagar, will be placed before the Cabinet to find a permanent solution to their woes, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy has said.

She was speaking to presspersons on Sunday after touring these areas where four persons died after contracting viral fever.

"I have received reports from the district medical authorities. After getting a report from the District Collector, the issue will be discussed in the Cabinet. More than 250 families in the area are living under constant threat of water logging. Rain water and drainage water are flowing into the huts," she said.

The district medical authorities said the death of four persons on Friday— Didora, 90, Joseph Varghese, 84, Swaminathan, 75 and Das Kutty, 65— was not due to viral fever. "The viral fever may have complicated their health problems. One of those who died on Friday had renal problem, another was suffering from heart ailment,'' District Medical Officer E.K. Madhavan said.

At the medical camps that began on Saturday, only 14 people were found having fever.

As many as 200 people were examined at the camps which ended on Sunday.

In collaboration with the City Corporation, the district administration pressed into service two pumps to flush out stagnant water from the colonies behind the wireless station near the international airport. Though most of the water was pumped out by 2 p.m. the rain that lashed the city in the evening once again led to water logging in these areas. "It has become clear that mere pumping out of water is no solution to the problems of the people here," Mayor C. Jayan Babu said.

Officials of the Corporation and those from the office of the DMO carried out fogging and spraying of larvicides in the colonies.

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