This Article is From Sep 14, 2014

Kashmir Floods: Medical Camps in Srinagar to Check Water-Borne Diseases

Kashmir Floods: Medical Camps in Srinagar to Check Water-Borne Diseases
New Delhi: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is working to prevent water-borne diseases like diarrhoea from spreading in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar city as flood waters started to recede, an official said on Sunday.

"Since water in most of the places recedes, threat of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases may arise," the union home ministry said in a statement in New Delhi.

"Thus the NDRF has established five medical camps in various water logged areas of Srinagar to provide health care facilities to marooned people," it said.

The statement said so far the NDRF has evacuated 49,115 flood victims and has distributed 37 tonnes of relief material to flood victims in Srinagar.

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