Chennai: More than disease outbreak, the doctors and staff at the Chromepet GH are finding it difficult to come to terms with heavy inundation since morning.
The torrential rain did not seem to deter the spirit of doctors and nurses who attended to patients. Those requiring admission were referred to Egmore GH. The administration at three major GHs in the city have made arrangements to cope with patients affected by rains. “We have made arrangements for doctors and nurses to stay back at the hospitals to attend on patients,” Dr Narayanababu, dean KMC, said.
Though special wards for fever and communicable diseases (isolation ward) the government hospitals have been receiving patients for common cold and fever. “About 87 of our doctors are working at the outreach camps at corporation hospitals while another 30 have been deployed at the medical camps,” says Dr Narayanababu. The duty rooms for doctors and nurses have turned into makeshift accommodation facilities. “Working in the heavy downpour is very challenging. Its our duty.. We have adequate stock of medicines to be distributed for free to the people, a senior official told DC.
Motorists struggle for hours
Traffic managers in the city were at their wit’s end on Tuesday with heavy rain flooding all roads and motorists struggling for hours to reach their destination. As if the floods were not enough, there were water fountains on the road, that too on OMR, to the surprise of motorists.
A grab from a video shot by Babu Krishnamoorthy, 39, a software professional from Mugalivakkam, working in an IT firm on OMR, showed a sudden spring of water on road. “I saw it around noon and captured it in my mobile phone. It was on the stretch between Tidel park and Madhya Kailash,” he said when this newspaper contacted him.
Sources in TNRDC said the sudden gush of water could have been due to gas pressure formed in underground sewerage. Meanwhile, evening rush hour traffic was hit again due to floods on roads across the city with police having very little to do. “The situation is really bad. There is nothing much to say about the traffic. Some people were cautious because of their experience a week back.
Today also, people were struggling with water logged roads and stranded vehicles for hours,” a senior police officer said. According to reports reaching here, Chennai - Bengaluru traffic is hit due to floods at Irungattukottai near Sriperumbudur.
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