Fear of an epidemic outbreak has residents worried as it has been weeks since waste has been lifted within the city limits.
Something as simple as a summer shower can trigger the outbreak and the weather department says that a heavy shower is likely to hit the state soon.
District Medical Officer Dr V. Venus confirmed that there was an epidemic threat and the medical department could do nothing since it was for the Corporation to take preventive steps by clearing the waste.
According to sources in the medical office, a draft report has been readied and will be dispatched to the Public Health Director giving details of the imminent threat.
Garbage disposal from the city was affected as Laloor Samara Samiti activists blocked vehicles transporting garbage to the dumping yard.
They said that they would continue the agitation till the Corporation readied a guaranteed time-bound programme for removal of garbage from the Laloor dumping yard.
Meanwhile, offering solidarity to the Samiti, social activist and former Naxal leader Mr K. Venu is continuing his sathygraha in front of the Corporation office. His indefinite fast entered the fourth day on Friday.
Sanitation workers have not collected waste in the Corporation area for about a month.
Mounds of garbage have accumulated in all the 179 points in the city. The drainage canals are clogged and teams of stray dogs abound in the areas. To make matters worse, mosquitoes too are swarming the city.
The Corporation Health Standing Committee chairman Mr C.S. Sreenivasan said that a lasting solution to the issue would be found before the monsoons.
