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Epidemic: situation ‘improving’

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday directed different departments to start health and sanitation awareness programmes to tackle health-related problems prevailing in tribal-dominated districts.

Mr. Patnaik, who chaired a high-level meeting to review the measures that had been taken to contain cholera in Koraput, Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, ordered that measures be taken to improve road connectivity in the tribal-dominated districts.

In a statement, the government claimed that the situation was improving in the three affected districts. Doctors drawn from distant places had been deployed in the affected areas.

The government further said that measures were being taken to disinfect water sources in the tribal-dominated blocks that had witnessed large number of deaths due to cholera and diarrhoea.

It said 100 tubewells each had been dug in Kasipur and Dasmantpur blocks and 30 in Thuamul Rampur block to provide drinking water to the people.

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