Since the "Yangtze River Flood No. 1 of 2021" and the "Jialing River Flood No. 2 of 2021" all passed through Chongqing on September 8, the dredging work in the flood subsidence area has continued, and the health and epidemic prevention are also rapidly following up.
At noon on September 7, in Shapingba, Chongqing, the magnetic water level rose significantly
On September 10, the Voice of Chongqing reporter came to the scene of dredging and killing at Ciqikou, and the epidemic prevention personnel expressed with actions that where the flood receded, their epidemic prevention would be done.
After the flood, Ciqikou Wharf, Jinbi Bridge, Xiahegou and the original Citong Road area accumulated a large amount of silt and garbage, thick, silt can not exceed the knees of adults. Hu Guoxu, head of the on-site dredging operation team, told reporters:
After 3 days, we sent a total of 4 cars, 7 or 80 workers, and the day shifts and night shifts were all done. The silt was too thick, and there were a lot of leaves and glass in the slag. It should be done this Sunday.
Closely linked to the dredging work is epidemic prevention and elimination. The reporter saw at the scene that under the deployment of the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission, relevant experts of the Chongqing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as anti-epidemic vehicles, are stationed at the site of dredging at Ciqikou to guide the local disease control department to carry out environmental disinfection, four pests elimination, disease monitoring, health education and other work.
Due to the gathering of ciqikou merchants and the number of shops affected by more disasters, several professional disinfection personnel wearing protective clothing used piggyback spraying devices to go deep into the interior of the scenic spot to carry out detailed disinfection of indoor and outdoor environments.
Xu Qian, attending physician of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Management Department of the Shapingba District CDC, said:
The key parts are submerged water sources, toilets, areas where animals are raised, and flooded merchants, etc. We need technical guidance if there are people like merchants.
A merchant who was cleaning and inventorying facilities told reporters:
Drowned out of the good, this year is good, the management committee they want to notify, less loss of a little. Now the walls are flushed, dried, and waited for two days to be open, and there are professional health personnel to disinfect.
Why is it so important to prevent and kill after the flood season? Zhou Lingbing, deputy chief physician of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Management Department of shapingba District CDC, introduced:
If eradication is not in place, it may cause the risk of intestinal infectious diseases in our area of decline, such as cholera, bacterial dysentery, infectious diarrhea, etc.
Yin Tao, deputy director of the Emergency Office of the Chongqing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said:
Our requirement is that where the flood water recedes, where the dredging work is cleared, our disinfection work must follow wherever it is, so that there are no dead corners, no gaps, and the health of the people is guaranteed.
YinTao introduced that the disease control department will strengthen the inspection of intestinal outpatient clinics and fever clinics in medical institutions under its jurisdiction, and simultaneously carry out drinking water hygiene supervision and on-site rapid testing to prevent infectious diseases after floods.
Chongqing Voice reporter Xiang Han smiled
Courtesy of the respondent
Source: Voice of Chongqing