Strategies of government at the time and after the disaster in Kerala flood
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The NDMA will launch recoup mode by helping people reclaim their houses, disposing waste, carcasses, cleaning houses, using bleaching powder and ensuring chlorination of water in another week as a primary measure.
Kerala, Sadanandan said, will be in recoup mode for roughly a month, after which the rehabilitation will be carried out in full swing. The state has been focussing on rehabilitation of people from relief camps to their homes alongside, he said. “We will train people to use bleaching powder in their homes,” he told The Quint.
The relief camps in Wayanad – one of the state’s ten district to receive excess rainfall – have started receiving cases along the same lines, with isolated cases of food poisoning.
“There’s also a chance that once people start going back to their homes, due to water being left behind because of flooding in their houses, they are vulnerable to catching a disease or fever,” Jithesh explains.
“At this stage, we are also considering snake bites as one of our biggest threats. It can pose a challenge. We have multipurpose experts in relief camps. We have set up additional consultation centres,” NDMA’s Sadanandan said. He also added that the authorities are watching out carefully for non-communicable diseases as they face high chances of it magnifying in Kerala.
Kerala is also going to proceed by addressing health in two ways, firstly by keeping a tab on prevention of communicable diseases and secondly by checking the nutritional health levels of those affected by floods, especially tribal communities.