EXPLAINING THE PLAN OF ACTION
After the recent detection of four diarrhoea cases in two blocks ( 2 in Jhigidi village, Bissamcuttack and 2 in Kumbhaiguda village, Kolnora block) the district administration has started full fledged control measures in these two block in a village cluster and downstream management mode. Collector Rayagada visited the cluster of villages around Kumbhaiguda village and assessed the situation there. Similarly Sub Collector Gunupur, Jayakumar, IAS was sent to the Jhigidi village to conduct similar control exercise.
Downstream control measures involves sanitising the entire stream on whose banks even a single village reports case of epidemic diarrhoea. The process involves disinfection of the stream by the way of chlorination starting from atleast 4 villages upstream and covering the entire length of the stream till its meets the major water body. The places for sanitisation/ chlorination is at the place about 100 meters upstream from a place where the village folk utilises the water. Tube well chlorination have been completed twice, but in such cases as a precautionary measure all the tube wells in this cluster is chlorinated once again. this practice was started last year and was a brain child of Collector Rayagada. This year its efficacy and preventive value will be studied in detail by RMRC scientist and RWSS, by measuring the chlorine concentration at the user point.
STREAM SANITIZATION BY CHLORINATION
For last one week there have been no cases and if the situation is kept under control for another two weeks this season will pass off without any epidemic. Collector Rayagada said that the the district administration is very serious about its objective to prevent any epidemic outbreak and even a single cases is fought with the same seriousness as what would be required to fight a big epidemic.
