Recently i was in Devghat for organizing camp for pilgrims during Maghe Sankantri.As a doctor ,I came to know the health problem in gathering of momentous scale.
This is a gathering of millions of people at a place.As, people gather a day before to take bath in the river, during night there are thousands of people.As it is mass gathering it is difficult to organize it perfectly.Food and water start getting scarce with passage of time and there is little place to accomadate people during night.
As a team leader of the camp I felt that there were four main public health problems during the health camp.
1.Firstly due to drinking of unpurified water people suffered from diahorreal diseases.
2.Secondly due to staying all night in the cold and bathing early people sufferd from cold.
3.Another problem was people jumping into boat to cross the river and over-crowding in boat poised the danger of people being drowned .
4.The most hazordous problem was human waste all around the riverbank which can lead to spread of infectious diseases.
These were the public health problem which can be improved in the days to come.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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