Overflowing waters from the rising Yamuna near Kashmere Gate in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI). Image credit: Hindustan Times
After 45 years, Delhi has seen unprecedented flooding, which has made international news. The outdated drainage system is loaded for 2.5 crores of people, which is actually not enough to meet the demand. Health is one of the many dimensions of consequences that are a key worry because it is a factor that will continue to have an impact after the flood.
We should all be prepared for the following:
- Injuries and accidents
- Drowning in pits, water, or sewar, etc.
- Snakes and insects bites
- Cholera, diarrhoea, typhoid, amebiasis, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, giardiasis, campylobacteriosis, scabies, and worm infections are among the waterborne diseases.
According to the Delhi calendar, winters are to prepare for air pollution, summers are to prepare for atmospheric heat and other summer diseases, and now it is monsoon season, to prepare for the aforementioned conditions. Kerala, Mumbai, and Chennai have already begun to understand this. They are dealing with a more serious ailment known as leptospirosis, which causes a high grade fever and can be fatal. In fact, all of the aforesaid ailments, if mistreated, result in death.
Since it is everyone in the city’s responsibility to help with illness prevention and eradication, this practise is known as community medicine. It’s time to start passing things down to the next generation, or otherwise, among other things, we’ll be forced to give them this gloomy calendar.
So, It is now or never.
What can be done right away:
- Be on the lookout for bites, injuries, and other potential hazards.
- Stop having water fun. Because they are overflowing, the water is sewer mixed water.
- Deal with your anxieties and fears.
- Start providing Pyrogen 200 in pill form, 4-4 pills every three hours for three days, to treat various watery illnesses. As a preventive measure, it will aid in averting any pandemic scenarios.
Many NGOs and government organisations are making every effort. Let’s all help and take care of it. A person who is ecologically conscious and lines up in the city with awareness of everything around them, including other people, animals, birds, trees, and the environment is a citizen.
Go ahead and use these safety measures and homoeopathy to keep your family safe.
