Gujarat Confidential: No Shoes Please
Health department officials of Surat Municipal Corporation have been on their toes with one of their Deputy Municipal Commissioners, Nidhi Sivach, being diagnosed with dengue. The IAS officer is undergoing treatment at her home in a multi-storeyed apartment in the city. On Wednesday, health officials of Athwa zone carried out a survey in all the flats of the apartment and found mosquito breeding centres in some of them. The health officials also issued a notice to the apartment president. Sources in the SMC said that the Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Health and Hospitals, Gurav Dinesh (IAS), also resides in the same apartment complex. Sources said the health officials surveyed Sivach's office as well. Meanwhile, Sivach is on the road to recovery, the sources added.
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