KRISHNAGIRI: There are incidents of students getting punished for coming late to school, but in this instance a government school headmistress has been placed under suspension on that count.
In a series of vigorous actions taken in Krishnagiri district in the wake of the dengue spread across the state, the collector Mr. C. Kathiravan reviewed anti-dengue drive measures in Devasamuthiram and Kattikanapalli panchayats coming under Krishnagiri union on Thursday.
The collector, while in Devasamuthiram visited the village panchayat middle school and gave orders to place the headmistress Ms. Vani under suspension for coming late to the school.
He then asked the Education department officials to demolish a school building in decrepit condition. The owner of another private building was asked to raze down the old structure before any untoward incident could occur.
A house owner, Ms. Sarala was ordered to pay Rs 10,000 as fine for keeping old tyres at the roof top of her house and in which larve of dengue-spreading mosquitoes was found.
In Kattikanapalli village panchayat, Kathiravan slapped a fine of Rs 5, 000 on a private clinic for unsafe disposal of medical waste. Few other hospitals were also issued notices for similar charges.
Two clinics ordered to be closed in K’giri
The Krishnagiri district deputy director of Health Services P.Priyaraj confirmed that two private hospitals in Krishnagiri town would be closed for breeding dengue-spreading mosquitoes.
“Two private hospitals have been ordered to close because of negligence in the anti-dengue drive,” Priyaraj told DC over phone on Thursday.
“These hospitals will be closed soon and the in-patients admitted here are being shifted to other hospitals as wished by patients or their relatives,” said Priyaraj.
According to the Health department official, this action comes after the orders given by the Krishnagiri district collector C.Kathiravan, who inspected the hospital premises on Thursday.
He was here in Kattikanapalli and Devasamuthiram village panchayats to review the works undertaken in controlling the breeding of dengue- spreading mosquitoes.
The collector, while inspecting the building of few private clinics in Krishnagiri town, found the clinics had dumped the medical wastes in an unsafe manner on vacant housing lands adjacent to the hospitals.Besides, the collector also found negligence by some hospitals in the anti-dengue drive. Kathiravan, during the inspections, also found larve of dengue-spreading mosquitoes breeding in the rainwater collected in waste materials stored in their premises.
