Punjab DG Health Dr Muhammad Aslam Ch has been supervising operations to check epidemics and infectious diseases in the district.
Aslam said that a comprehensive plan had been chalked out to control malaria and infectious diseases in the Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, DG Khan and Layyah districts.
He added that uninterrupted provision of medical facilities to the flood victims was a top priority.
Aslam said that sufficient stock of medicine was available in medical relief camps and the supply of medicine from Lahore and Multan would continue. “So far 67 trucks of medicines have been supplied to the affected districts,” he said.
The DG Health said that 845 static medical camps and 893 mobile medical teams from the Health Department were working round the clock to provide medical facilities to flood victims.
A total of 67 medical teams from the government hospitals were also busy in providing medical cover to the flood victims and hundreds of ambulances have been participating in relief efforts, he added.
Muzaffargarh:
District coordination officer (DCO) Farasat Iqbal has disclosed that a flood assessment survey in the entire district is going to be launched within the next 48 hours.
He said that the survey would be completed within 15 days and a report would be submitted to the Punjab government to help finalise a grant of financial assistance for the flood victims. Iqbal said that the survey would be monitored by Brig Abid Saeed and DCO Muzaffargarh at the district level, while Lt Col and DDO (retired) would oversee survey operations at the tehsil level.
Meanwhile, while commending the invaluable services of Rescue 1122 in the district during the floods, Iqbal said that over 10,841 flood victims had been rescued and 400 others administered first aid by Rescue 1122 teams in the area. During the same period, 300 displaced families were also given medicines by rescue services in the district.
The district administration in Muzaffargarh has set up nearly 40 relief camps for the rescue and shelter of flood victims in the district. As many as 50,000 displaced people are being provided shelter and other necessities including food and medicines.
DCO Farasat Iqbal held a detailed review of rehabilitation measures taken by the district administration in collaboration with local philanthropists and NGOs.
The EDO (Health) said that ORS packets were being provided to the families for their children’s use regularly as well, adding that arrangements had been made for lady doctors to visit female patients regularly as well.
The Health Department has vaccinated over 150,000 thousand people and two spray machines have been arranged to spray insecticide at the Union Council Level.
The DCO said that mineral water was also being arranged for flood victims to help ward off the spreading gastroenteritis epidemic.
The filtration plants are to be installed in different tehsils to provide clean drinking water, besides the installation of 100 hand pumps by the Public Health Engineering Department.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2010.
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