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| Epidemic threat looms large over Srinagar City: Hamid Choudhary | | Camps' condition pathetic' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 15: Asking government and agencies looking after rescue and relief operations in flood ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir State to expedite and complete work before the onset of winters, People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader and Chief Election Coordinator for Jammu Province, Abdul Hamid Choudhary said that condition of relief camps in Jammu was pathetic and an epidemic threat was looming large over water logged Srinagar city.
"Absence of state's administrative machinery from ground zero calls for bringing in workers from neighbouring states to drain out water from Srinagar city, launch massive cleanliness operations, dispose-off animal carcass scientifically and most importantly set up medical camps and hospitals so that people are saved from possible spread of an epidemic besides continuing with relief and rehabilitation operations", he said.
Expressing his sympathies with affected families, Choudhary asked the government to locate missing persons and unite them with their families immediately.
"There are people looking for their dear ones and are in compete distress for the past over a fortnight.
Though it's going to take government months together to assess losses, yet the priority should be to locate missing persons and make sure that the saved ones are provided with adequate facilities before the onset of winters", he added.
Referring to unattended areas of Jammu region, the PDP leader said that special relief teams must also be fanned in other directions to help needy. He said that relief camps set up by army were also in pathetic conditions and the same should either be moved to other places or their conditions improved to save people from any epidemic.
He made a fervent appeal to central government, state agencies and all those social and religious organisations rendering their helping hand to flood ravaged people to lay special emphasis on maintaining hygiene in these areas and set up special makeshift hospitals for aged, infirm, children, pregnant women and disabled to save them from communicable diseases. |
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