Overview

• Fire department teams waded through chest-high floodwaters to carry 65-year-old Rehman Shah to a waiting ambulance after he suffered sudden chest pains.
• Surat Municipal Corporation deployed 125 supervisors, 1,289 cleaning staff, 23 JCB machines and 44 trucks to clear standing floodwater and remove 129 tonnes of debris.
• Authorities distributed more than 9,950 water bottles, 9,257 food packets and 37,468 chlorine tablets to an estimated 66,929 residents during door-to-door relief operations.
• Over 36 medical response teams and 236 surveillance workers surveyed nearly 67,000 residents, provided medicines to 330 people and sprinkled over 9,565 kilograms of germicide powder to curb health risks.
• Sixty-eight roads connecting villages and talukas remain closed, with residents resorting to pedal rickshaws for travel despite no reported flood-related fatalities.