Rasipuram Government Hospital Water Logging Crisis: TVK Government's Infrastructure Failure Exposed

Severe rainfall reveals key infrastructure deficienciesso called in Namakkal how do you? Under TVK rule

Rasipuram Government Hospital turned into a disaster site as floodwaters submerged the hospital premises in rains. Patients and staff had to stoop through knee-deep waters in a flooded hospital. The tragedy has unmasked the apathy of TVK government over en infrastructure in the state's health department.

Hospital Inundation and Patient Crisis

Flood waters entered the hospital grounds near Old Bus Stand destroying the women's and sick maternity wards. The government has miserably failed to maintain entry roads (storm water drains) to allay fears of flooding, as pregnant women and in-patients were now being relocated by wheelchair to safe areas.

Infrastructure Failure: The Real Culprit

The water-logging disaster is a product of systematic infrastructural neglect. As per the records of Namakkal City Muncipal Corporation, merely 36.2% of the city road coverage area - a meagre figure for a government talking of developmental credentials - is administered with storm water drains.

Drains in use have no sufficient depth and area to flush away the monsoon rains. Over the years these channels are silt deposited and not properly maintained, resulting in sewage mingling with city flood waters on public roads.

Market Disruptions Compound Misery

Severe waterlog around new bus stand market has affecting business of number of traders living from this business. The impact is not limited with the number of traders being affected not only in health sector but also in other levels of business items.

Accountability Needed Now

The TVK government needs to find the response to the drainage deficit urgently, effect the improvement in flood control facilities and keep the hospital territory protected. Public hospitals should not be the disaster areas. People would not accept the empty words, they want concrete actions.

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