Since water can be easily available during the rainy season, keeping in mind the possibility that polluted water can be used in Panipuri and Chatpata, monitoring is being done to control the sale of such food items.
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In order to protect citizens from waterborne diseases, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City is going to monitor the sale of food items that negatively affect health, including panipuri and chatpaty.
Since water can be easily available during the rainy season, keeping in mind the possibility that polluted water can be used in Panipuri and Chatpata, monitoring is being done to control the sale of such food items.
As water can be used in such food items, as it is seen that polluted water can increase the infection of waterborne diseases in the health of consumers, KAMPA said that it is going to regulate it. Rishi Prasad Bhusal, Focal Person of Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control of the Health Department of Kampa informed that this campaign will be conducted throughout the rainy season in collaboration with the Department of Food Technology and Water and Sewage Management. He said that the regulation of the sale and distribution of panipuri and chatpata will be intensified during the rainy season as well as the testing of the quality of drinking water.
Paying special attention to the quality of drinking water for cholera control, Bhusal mentioned that Kampa is preparing to conduct 'plastic wrap stickers' and awareness campaigns to prevent deficiencies in the transportation of bottled water. According to him, the quality of water from the source to the house will be checked in coordination with the drinking water consumer committee. Similarly, he said, Kampala is also preparing to discourage the act of washing vegetables and mixing sewage in the river. According to the health department of Kampa, the orientation program on dengue and cholera prevention and control for students from classes 7 to 10 in
school, the awareness program on cholera prevention and control in all 32 wards has been completed.
As it will be easy for the students to convey what they have learned to the community, Bhusal, the Focal Person for Prevention and Control of Epidemic Diseases, said that by appointing a health leader in each school, the activity in sanitation has been increased. According to him, KAMPA has mobilized volunteers and health workers in all 32 wards for this is.
Kampa offers free In addition to providing a hotline number 1180, it has been requested to contact in case of any problem.
Focalperson Bhusal informed that in coordination with the Urban Management Department, initiatives are being taken to remove construction materials placed in a disorderly manner, to clean and manage places where there is a possibility of water stagnation, to organize citizen awareness campaigns and to mobilize volunteers in collaboration with youths including Kampa Police, Disaster Management Department, Nepal Red Cross Society. According to him, the metropolis is conducting a campaign to destroy dengue larvae every Friday from 9 to 10 am in every office complex of Kampa.
