How Effective The Health & Hygiene Sector Revitalization Interventions In The Flood Hit Area Of Swat.
2017
The key objective of the study was to know the health and hygiene situation in the area, after the Interventions initiates by government and non government organization (NGOs) in the flood hit area of swat. A sample size of 265 respondents was randomly selected from the total population. For the comparison of before and after flood situation of local people associated with health and hygiene sector, paired sample T-test was used. The result show a highly significant reduction in cases of diseases due to health and hygiene sector rehabilitation (P=0.000) was observed, moreover there was an significant increased in number of water supply tanks (P= 0.000), increases in length of sewerage lines (P=0.000), was observed due to community infrastructures revitalization intervention. The study found that the health & hygiene sector intervention had improved the general heath conduction in the area, by effectively controlling various diseases. Similarly the community infrastructures revitalization interventions were also found effective in reconstruction of water supply tanks and sewerage lines in the area. Due to improvement in the health, hygiene and community infrastructures in the disaster effected area, it is vital to persist such program for full rehabilitation of health & hygiene and community infrastructure, and also should be taken as model in the feature disaster situations in the country.
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