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10 Member team to survey areas hit by drought: The Maharashtra state government has officially declared that 60 per cent of its villages were facing a ‘drought-like’ condition.
No full textDrought can be devastating and unlike earthquakes or hurricanes, there is no immediate response for disaster management. At Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), a ten-member team will go to drought-prone Beed, Latur and Osmanabad districts and take a week-long survey to understand why authorities fall short in taking planned and immediate steps. Dr Rajas Parchure, Director of GIPE, told The Indian Express that the survey was not a fact-finding one to assess the ground reality. “There has been ample evidence reported from various districts about the scarce water scenario. Migration of people living in these drought hit areas to other cities has also been recorded. What we aim to find out is why there has been a failure in planning policies and identify the loopholes,” said Parchure.
The state government has officially declared that 60 per cent of its villages were facing a ‘drought-like’ condition. Drought comes in several degrees and hence at times it may not qualify to be termed as a disaster. The research team’s plan is to study the norms and check what should be the proportion or severity of drought to term it as a disaster and what kind of response should be anticipated.
Researchers to study Solapur model that tackled water crisis Solapur, a chronically drought hit district was serviced with just 18 tankers this year when the monsoon in 2015-16 was just 186 mm. In 2012-13 the district authorities had to send 673 tankers when the rainfall was 278 mm while in 2013-14 when the recorded rainfall was 490 mm, at least 212 water tankers were deployed. However, a five point programme by the District Collector Tukaram Mundhe has helped alleviate the water crisis in Solapur and according to Parchure, the team will be assessing the work at the ground level. According to Mundhe, thanks to creating a systematic inventory of water sources – which were many times not on record, repairing and recharging maximum possible structures and other measures has helped bring down the supply of water tankers to just 18 villages out of 11,444 in Solapur district
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Pune: C-section costs more in drought-hit Latur: Many surgeries being postponed due to shortfall of water, only emergency cases being taken up.: GIPE team to tour drought-hit districts to assess damage
No full textPune: C-section costs more in drought-hit Latur
Many surgeries being postponed due to shortfall of water, only emergency cases being taken up.
Dr Ahtesham Shaikh, who is studying a postgraduate diploma in emergency medicine at Jehangir hospital, had to rush to his native place at Latur city which is in the grip of a severe drought and has had no water for the last two months.
“My father is a general practitioner there and has a clinic. While the situation is grim, there has not been a rise in cases of dehydration or gastroenteritis. Planned surgeries, however, have been deferred,” Dr Shaikh told Newsline.
Since February, there has been no water at Latur and over 150 small and large hospitals have been purchasing water from tankers. “Our locality has a borewell that supplies water to 8-10 households but we don’t know how long it will last,” Shaikh said.
At the 20-bed Lokmanya intensive care centre, director Dr Chetan Sarda, who has been a former municipal corporator, told Newsline that because of the water scarcity, the hospitals have to purchase water tankers of 6,000 litres every alternate day, which cost between Rs 800-1,000.
“Planned deliveries via C-section now cost Rs 25,000 as doctors have to use more water and hence are charging a little extra,” claims Dr Sarda. Most of the big hospitals have deferred planned surgeries and taking up emergency ones, he said.
At the government medical college in Latur, Dean Dr Ashok Shinde said that their daily requirement is 1.90 lakh litres and they are falling short by 40,000 litres. “However, at the government hospital, we are taking up 35 routine and 25 emergency operations everyday,” he said.
Dr VM Kulkarni, Deputy Director, Latur division, said that the situation in Latur city is bleak as compared to others. The Latur division comprises the four districts of Latur, Beed, Osmanabad and Nanded. In Latur city, the borewell at the 60-bed women’s hospital has dried up, but several charitable and social organisations are helping in providing water tankers, Kulkarni said.
Indian Medical Association Latur unit chief Dr R Londhe said that they have taken up a campaign to reach out to the interior areas of Latur district and treat people affected by water shortage. Dr Mahesh Patil, Medical Officer of Health, Latur municipal corporation, however, said that no surgeries have been cancelled. “We are keeping watch on any outbreak of diseases, but there has been none so far,” he said.
Health dept rules out outbreak of water-borne diseases
A sanitary survey last year had issued red cards to 800 villages whose water sources were at risk for contamination. In the wake of severe drought, the health department has now turned its focus on these villages. “There is, however, no drastic rise in gastro, cholera or other waterborne disease,” Dr Kanchan Jagtap, Joint Director of Health, said. Special arrangements are being made to ensure that water in the tankers are clean. Bleaching powder is being given to both tanker drivers and water cleaners so as to prevent any outbreak, Dr Pradip Awate, state surveillance officer, said.
GIPE team to tour drought-hit districts to assess damage
City based Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) will send a team to the worst drought affected districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur to assess the ground reality. “This is our initiative and we will submit a report to the government as the trend of migration from drought-affected areas to other places like Pune, Mumbai and others continues,” Dr Rajas Parchure, Director, GIPE, said