22,000 Christian victims in the relief camps in Orissa: shortage of clothes, milk, toilets

Communists seek better facilities in relief camps

A  three-member fact finding team of Orissa unit of CPI(M) visited Kandhamal.

The team of Jagannath Mishra, Kailsah Sadangi and Judhisthir Sahu said: "There were extreme shortage of clothes among victims especially women, who had to flee their villages with only clothes they had worn," said Sadangi. The state of infants up to the age of six months was pitiable as milk was not being provided at relief material for these newborns.  The physical condition of their mothers was also preventing the infants to get sufficient breast feeding. Mishra said the sanitary condition of the relief camps had deteriorated due to the rains.  Despite all theefforts of the district administration  lack of proper number of toilets at the relief camps surely bring in the fear of gastro epidemic. Most relief camps run in schools which had limited number of toilets. People live in the rooms of the schools or the tents erected in the school field.

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 22,000 Christian victims in the relief camps in Orissa: shortage of clothes, milk, toilets

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