The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is getting ready for the monsoons.To control the water-borne diseases this year, a detailed action plan has been submitted by the council’s health department.

PK Sharma, medical officer, NDMC said, “With the monsoons due to hit the city, we wanted to be prepared with preventive measures to control the spread of water-borne diseases, which are rampant this season. These diseases have great chances of turning into an outbreak and we wanted to have a definitive plan for it”.

A team of health inspectors examined all the roadside food vendors around connaught place with which the implementation started.

The inspection will be continue outside schools and hospitals in the coming week.

The action plan read, “Selling of unhygienic eatables and ice creams by unlicensed stalls has been banned, especially outside schools. Import of ice creams from neighbouring states is also being regulated”.

The team has also started providing additional tankers of potable drinking water to JJ clusters. T he residual chlorine level in the water is being particularly maintained at 0.5 to 1PPM with zero bacterial count, in each tanker.

Teams are also inspecting water pumps in the area. Shallow water pumps are being dismantled or being stamped red, with boards of ‘water not fit for drinking’. Drinking water samples are also being tested. Desilting of all drains has also been completed in several localities.

The council has set a deadline of June 30, for the completion of desilting in all drains.

PK Sharma said, “All the hospitals and dispensaries under our jurisdiction have been ordered to give a stock of their medical supplies and call for additional stock as per need. We have also ordered dispensary staff to distribute free sachets of chlorine tablets and packets of ORS to patients”.