Mirpur(AJK), (Parliament Times) : Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Amjad Iqbal has said that several measures have been taken to prevent jaundice in Mirpur city with the cooperation of the district administration, public health department, and public health engineering while to further improve this, all the hotels, shops and food vendors have been given a week to clean their water tanks immediately and install filters on them. Action will be taken against involved restaurants and the sellers of other food items.
In this way, the Department of Public Health Engineering will gradually clean all the supply tanks in the city. Citizens should clean the water tanks of their homes and use air or filtered water because of the spread of jaundice due to cleaning, the supply of water from the main water tank supplying to different sectors will be stopped for two days from May 5. Therefore, the citizens should clean the tanks of their houses and store water beforehand.
He expressed these views while presiding over the meeting of the officers of various departments regarding preventive measures for the eradication of jaundice disease in Mirpur.
In the meeting, DHO Dr. Fida Hussain Raja, Assistant Commissioner Sardar Abdul Qadir Khan, Chief Officer Maghees Riaz, XEN Public Health Engineering Raja Inamullah Khan, DMS Dr. Iram Batul, Information Officer Muhammad Javed Malik, Municipal Magistrate Sheikh Zahid Majeed, SDO Raja Hafeez Ur Rahman, Assistant Director Livestock Dr. Khalid Qayyum Butt, SDO Public Health Engineering Syed Hyder Ali, Engineer Yasir Ahmed of PHE, Qamar Atta of Muslim Hands participated.
The meeting was informed about the progress of lab testing of water supply tanks, the accuracy of water pipes, and wall leakage at different places by XEN of Public Health Engineering Raja Inamullah Khan for the last month. All the main tanks of the city have been initially cleaned with chlorine, while from May 05 every other main tank is being practically cleaned, for which every tank will be cleaned in two days. The water supply will be suspended for two days in the city. Tests of water samples are being conducted one after another, he directed.
The tests of jaundice patients have revealed that the cases of hepatitis A and E are high, which is the main reason for using dirty water.The administration, in collaboration with the public health department, municipality, and public health engineering, will take water samples and test them for the supply of drinking water throughout the city, he added.
History has been taken, on which the water of various hotels and shops selling food and drinks have been checked across the city. No concession will be made regarding the supply of clean drinking water. Public Health Engineering will also clean all the tanks and cover the tanks, in this regard, the report of the water tests will also be provided to the district administration, he concluded.