More than three weeks after flood water from river Sutlej entered Fazilka villages depiction many homeless and destroying position crops in thousands of acres, the locals are battling an onslaught of diseases the stagnant water in several areas joint with the rotting foliage has become an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Combined with the lack of accessibility of potable water, the villagers, some of them still waiting out the flood sitting on the rooftops of their houses, are declining prey to malaria, pneumonia, viral fever and skin related ailments even the livestock contain started contracting diseases like haemorrhagic septicaemia, worms in the stomach and other disorders.
The water has started receding now, but most of the move toward roads are still under water hampering the relief work the doctors, administrative officers and additional government officials are using tractors and at times even the JCB machines to reach the flooded villages to set up medical camps the gravity of the situation might be gauged from the fact that on an average 600 patients visit the medical camps set up at Mahtam Nagar, Gatti number 1 and additional areas everyday an equal number of cattle heads are as well being treated everyday.
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