CHIEF Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud is urging persons to promote good health practices so as to remain healthy throughout the rainy season.Here are a few health tips prepared by the CMO:
* Keep out of the floodwater. It contains many harmful germs and substances.
Use proper footwear, gloves, eyewear, etc. that prevents water from touching your feet, eye and body. Please don’t let children swim in the water.
* Protect all food supplies from contact with the flood water.
* Secure water sources and start treating your drinking water with chlorine bleach.
* Uses control measures for pests such as rats, mosquitoes, etc.
* If diarrhoea occurs, seek medical advice and take ORS (oral rehydration salts), especially for children and the elderly.
* Be careful with electrical appliances. Plug out and move to higher areas. Remember water conducts electricity.
* Please encourage everyone to dispose of garbage carefully. It may be best to store until the flood goes down and then dispose of all your household waste in the correct way.
* Use bleach in the cleanup and discard contaminated foods and materials that cannot be cleaned.