Jammu and Kashmir government has geared up to contain the damage and wanted the Centre to speedily send medicines as well as at least 300 paramedic staff.

The Department of Health Services is making arrangements on a war-footing, issuing advisories, deploying doctors and paramedics across the Valley besides dispatching drugs and medicines.

Director, Health Services, Saleem-ur Rehman, told the agencies that outbreak of epidemic is feared because of filth that has accumulated across the Valley besides the death of animals and their carcasses floating around in the flood waters.

He said doctors and paramedic staff are being rushed across the Valley to sensitise people as well as take precautionary measures.

Rehman said the Central government has been generous and has sent 30 doctors who have been deployed in various districts of Kashmir. He wants at least 300 paramedic staff from the Centre, saying it would be of great help.

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has set up five medical camps in various water-logged areas of Srinagar to check water-borne diseases like diarrhoea which may affect citizens in places where flood water is receding.

An official release issued in New Delhi today said the medical camps are in Bakshi Stadium, Amar Singh College Road, Shergadi, Badshai Nagar (Nowgam) and Kushupor areas of the city. More relief materials and medical officers with medicines are being airlifted from Delhi to Srinagar.

Moreover the National Crisis Management Committee will meet in New Delhi this afternoon to review rescue and relief operations in flood-affected Jammu and Kashmir.

The Committee headed by Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth has been reviewing from time to time the situation in the State arising due to floods.