Kochi moots health flying squad
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The city corporation plans to launch a health flying squad to monitor sanitation, drinking water quality and waste treatment in various places within the city limits.
The squad will have four mobile units and selected health officials of the corporation will be part of it.
The corporation has sought the financial assistance from the state government for purchasing vehicles for the squad, said Mayor Tony Chammany.
He was delivering the presidential address during the launch function of Mazhayethum Munpe the city corporation’s pre-monsoon healthcare drive.
Excise minister K. Babu inaugurated the programme on Friday in a function held at Maharajas college auditorium.
Delivering the inaugural address, the minister said that though the government, local bodies and the health department initiate several disease prevention and sanitation campaigns ahead of the monsoon, such programmes won’t succeed without people’s participation.
“The state focuses on decentralised waste management and the major problem regarding setting up major waste treatment plants is absence of an effective and scientific model, which is proved as successful,” he said.
Mazhayethum Munpe is being organised in co-ordination with the state total sanitation programme. The programme includes mobile lab units for the migrant labourers and cleaning of drinking water sources.
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