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Directs to ensure sampling of drinking water and chlorine treatment to prevent the outbreak
SAS Nagar, July 18, 2024
Deputy Commissioner Mrs Aashika Jain has cautioned the district officials of the outbreak of Diarrhoea and Cholera as reported in some of the districts and directed them to keep sampling drinking water besides ensuring chlorine treatment to prevent its spread in the SAS Nagar district.
Taking a review meeting of the various departments including Rural Development and Panchayats, Urban Local Bodies, Health, Education, Water Supply and Sanitation departments, the Deputy Commissioner asked them to remain on alert mode to check the outbreak as well as take preventive measures in rural and urban areas.
The Civil Surgeon was instructed to ensure the sampling of drinking water and if any sample of drinking water fails in the urban/rural area, then the concerned department should be informed about it and the action taken report should also be sent to the DC office. She further emphasised that the action taken report must contain the measures taken to prevent the spread of the disease like ensuring the supply of chlorinated drinking water or disconnection of water connection (line in case of cases reported from a particular locality) besides ensuring water supply by alternate way (tanker etc.).
Apart from this, medicines and other necessary arrangements should be completed for cholera-related cases in the hospital, said the Deputy Commissioner adding If such cases of cholera are reported in any city/village area, appropriate action should be taken by taking immediate action. The health department should ensure an advance action plan for the use of chlorine tablets as per requirement.
The Deputy Commissioner instructed the Municipal Corporation, Municipal Councils, Executive Engineer Water Supply Division No. 2 and 3 and Block Development and Panchayat Offices that the supply of clean and hygienic chlorinated water should be ensured in all urban/rural areas. It is also said It will be the collective responsibility of the Executive Engineer Water Supply and Sanitation, Division No. 3 and the concerned Block Development and Panchayat Officer to supply clean drinking water in the rural areas.
She said that all government departments and agencies should ensure 100 per cent testing of samples at their own level. Regular checking should be made by the departments in their respective areas, where there is leakage reported in the sewer line, it should be repaired immediately. In those areas where cases of cholera come to the fore due to contaminated water, immediately stop the water supply in that area arrange for alternative chlorinated water supply and ensure re-sampling of the water in collaboration with the Health Department after super chlorination.
The District Education Officers (Secondary and Elementary) were instructed to ensure the water tanks constructed in all the schools in the district were cleaned in time to prevent such outbreaks. Along with this, all the departments were asked to run an awareness campaign to sensitise the people to the use of safe and hygienic (preferably boiled) drinking water.
The meeting was attended by ADC (UD) Damanjit Singh Mann, ADC (RD) Ms Sonam Chaudhary, MC Commissioner Navjot Kaur, Civil Surgeon Davinder Kumar Puri, Executive Engineers of Water Supply and Sanitation and Executive Officers of Municipal Councils of the District.
