Natural disasters often create severe impacts on a place and its people. They are forced to suffer physical and mental stress or agony which might even affect their future life. Those who survived the deadly landslides in Wayanad's Chooralmala and Mundakkai are currently in the relief camps as they have lost everything.
They are unable to feel a sense of relief or comfort as most of them have lost their family members, their homes or their savings. Now, they are facing the threat of many communicable diseases too that can spread rapidly when lots of people live in congested spaces and poor living conditions, like relief camps. It is important to prevent such diseases to ensure the health and well-being of those who are in the relief camps.
Until recently, diseases like viral fevers, meningitis, cholera and Nipah had been widely reported across Kerala. Dr. Vinod P, consultant of general medicine at Kottayam General Hospital spoke to Manorama Online recently about various health crises that could happen at the relief camps and ways to combat them.
What to do to stay safe Infectious or communicable diseases could easily spread in relief camps as large groups of people live in a small area. All kinds of infectious diseases that spread through water or air could be dangerous. During the monsoon, severe respiratory diseases like H1N1 and COVID-19 that are spread through the air become common.
These diseases spread easily and sometimes could be dangerous too. Not just H1N1 or COVID-.