Kerala floods: Civic bodies, health department gear up for disease control exercise
(WorldNews India)

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While the flooding remains unabated in the state, the local self government (lsg) department and the health department are gearing up for a mammoth sanitation and disease control exercise. With no precedents of flood of this magnitude in the state, the lsg department has been closely studying the post-flood series of events during Uttarakhand floods in 2013 pertaining to health and sanitation `` At present we all are engaged in rescue operations, but once the water recedes, the role of local bodies will be prioritised and we have started planning accordingly. We haven´t dealt with anything of this scale before and flash floods that hit Uttarakhand is the one disaster we...