Other dist workers to clear dirt in Chennai

Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has ordered 1,070 sanitation workers from various municipalities be moved to Chennai immediately to ensure that accumulated garbage is removed.

The conservancy workers would be shifted from Trichy, Erode, Tirupur, Madurai, Coimbatore, Salem, Vellore, Thanjavur, Dindigul, Namakkal and Tirunelveli municipalities. The staff include 25 sanitation managers, 44 supervisors and 1070 sanitation workers. Another 52 garbage trucks will also be moved to Chennai from other municipalities for the same purpose.

State health minister Dr C Vijayabhasker presiding over a meeting of health officials at the secretariat said that it was planned to conduct 200 additional camps for Chennai’s flood affected. 

While Madras Medical College would hold 30 camps, Stanley and Kilpauk medical colleges would conduct 40 each, while the Omandur medical college would conduct another 20 camps. The Vellore, Tiruvanamalai and Chengalpattu medical colleges, Tambaram TB centre, Tondiarpet and Periyarnagar suburban hospitals and the Omandur government multispecialty hospital would operate another 60 camps, he said. The camps would diagnose, treat and provide medicine, he ended.