The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is working to prevent water-borne diseases like diarrhoea from spreading in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar city as flood waters started to recede, an official said Sunday.
"Since water in most of the places recedes, threat of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases may arise," the union home ministry said in the statement here.
"Thus the NDRF has established five medical camps in various water logged areas of Srinagar to provide health care facilities to marooned people," it said.
The statement said so far the NDRF has evacuated 49,115 flood victims and has distributed 37 tonnes of relief material to flood victims in Srinagar.
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