Response plan regarding 'loo' prepared

Anil Pokharel, Chief Executive Officer of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority informed that the first response plan related to 'loo' has been created and implemented from today.

Tuesday The response plan has been completed . He said that in the event of a disaster, a team of health workers with medicines would be mobilized from the local municipality immediately, from preparing an action team to conducting an awareness program.

So far, while no special preparatory work has been done on the matter of Lu, this year a counter-action plan has been prepared and implemented . According to Chief Executive Officer Pokharel, an action plan has been prepared so that the district disaster management committee and the local level and the health office are more responsible.

In the action plan, conducting disaster dialogues at the district level, spreading publicity about measures to avoid heatstroke, distributing water, living water, tap water by establishing a health desk, keeping local health institutions ready for first aid, controlling congestion, warning people not to walk too much in the afternoon, Providing cooling facilities in the workplace, keeping passengers only according to the seat capacity in transport, arranging fans, and creating a working environment in the morning and evening are among others.

Similarly, in the response plan, the information issued by the Department of Water and Meteorology regarding floods will be conveyed to the municipal level. According to Chief Executive Officer Pokharel, the team led by Bharatmani Pandey, Chief Joint Secretary of the Authority's Policy Planning and Monitoring Division, has prepared the countermeasure plan. He said that the Ministry has given necessary instructions to act according to this plan in every district.

So far, concrete steps have not been taken regarding the hot air wave and the measures to avoid it in Nepal . Although the Red Cross has started some programs in Nepalgunj, when the work is not being done from the government level, now the work has been progressed by creating an action plan to work systematically. Chief Executive Officer Pokharel said that heat waves will cause more damage indirectly than directly. In Nepal, the maximum temperature is increasing by 0.052 percent annually. Meteorologists have said that the minimum temperature is also increasing by 0.002 percent.

22 districts of Nepal's Terai are more affected by the heat wave. This year, the weather department has announced that the weather will increase and rain will also increase. Therefore, to save the lives of citizens from the heat and not to affect people's lives, a counter-action plan has been created and implemented.