The Pioneer, Nov 5, 2010
Pioneer News Service, Bhubaneswar
The State Government on Thursday decided to make a long-term plan to check further spreading of cholera in the vulnerable districts like Rayagada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur and Koraput.
Collectors of these districts have been asked to prepare action plans for their respective districts with immediate effect.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Bijaya Kumar Patnaik.
The meeting thrust upon the immediate solution to the problems like non-availability of drinking water, bad road communication and appointment of Asha workers in the recently diarrhea affected areas Kashipur, the most-affected one.
Health Secretary informed that all the concerned Collectors have been asked to submit their action plan by November. “Collectors’ action plan would focus on digging of tube wells, finding out alternative for supply of drinking water in the areas where it would not be possible to dig tube wells, construction of roads in inaccessible areas and appointment of more number of Asha workers,” Garg said, adding that the action plans would be implemented by December 31, 2010.
The meeting decided that the tribal pockets would have one Asha worker in each area having population of 200 people.
It is to be noted that nearly a hundred people had died due to diarrhea and more than 1,500 were affected in the disease.
Two central teams and different political parties had moved to the area to take stock of the situation and attributed the cause for spreading of the disease to use of contaminated disease and lack of road communication.
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