Andhra Pradesh - Health officials on alert

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Andhra Pradesh - Health officials on alert
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Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD : The three-day incessant rain that inundated several parts in the city has put the health officials on an alert for possible outbreak of water-borne diseases in the days to come. Since the city is already in the grip of vector-borne viral infections and the scare of chikungunya is running high for more than a month, authorities are worried at the risk of water contamination and large-scale health problem breaking out in the wake of rains.


Once the rains ceased on Saturday, the health wing of Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) decided to launch a door-to-door survey in vulnerable areas to check health conditions. Teams of ANMs were pressed into service and they were given Chloroquine, Paracetamol and other tablets for distribution in different localities.

Apart from Government health institutions, even the private and corporate hospitals were being alerted. Advisories for general public were also being put out in the form of scrolls on television and slides in cinema houses.
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Around the City

Telugu Desam to organise medical camps
The Greater Visakha unit of the Telugu Desam Party is organising free medical camps for the benefit of chikungunya patients. Allopathy and homoeopathy medicines will be distributed free of cost at the camps, says urban unit president C.M.A. Zaheer Ahmed.
The camps will be held at Peda Jalaripeta (August 7), Seethammapeta (August 9), Thatichetlapalem (August 13), 10th and 11th divisions (August 16), Gajuwaka (August 19), Pendurthy (August 22) and Arilova (August 25).

Friendship Day fete
Hotel Green Park is offering a lavish multi-cuisine buffet dinner of vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies along with kebabs, separate counters for chaat and dosa at Meadows on Sunday.
The pagoda space of the lawns will be converted into a dance floor with live band by `Rhythm and Taal.'
Fun games such as tambola, housie, spot answers and how best you know your friend will form part of the celebrations.

Clothes distributed
Nippon Care-Fit Service Association distributed clothes to 52 children attending a Bala Karmika Pathasala run by Help Society at MVP Fishermen Colony on Saturday. The clothes were sponsored by people of Japan as a gift to the poor and needy. Earlier, the children were trained on how to respect elderly persons.

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