No outbreak of disease in Uttarakhand: Govt

The government today said no outbreak of any water, food or air-borne disease has been reported from flood-affected areas of Uttarakhand.
"Till now, there has been no outbreak of disease so far," Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said adding he also talked to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna today.
A Health Ministry statement said no outbreak of water borne/food borne/air borne or direct contact diseases has been reported from the affected areas.
A three-member high-level committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is in Dehradun to review the public health situations with state health authorities. Director General of Health Services Jagdish Prasad and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Health R K Jain will also leave for Uttarakhand tomorrow.

The team comprising of Director of National Centre for Disease Control L S Chauhan, Director of Emergency Medical Response P Ravindran and Joint Director of National vector- borne disease control K S Gill, are discussing the health situation with Uttarakhand government and steps to be taken to control outbreak of any disease or epidemic.
The Health Ministry said that after picking up early warning signals, diarrhoea cases in Haridwar (Alwalpur), Uttarkashi (Udvi) and Rudraprayag (Chandrapuri) have been managed at an incipient stage.
Azad said Bahuguna has asked him to send 40 medical officers and the Ministry will be sending the doctors soon.

He said three more teams of three specialists each in Medicine, Cardiology and Psychiatry will be sent to Uttarakhand. Besides, three more teams from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore, will be sent to provide psychiatric help and counselling to people there.