A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Survey to Understand the Health Status of People after 2013 Kedarnath Flood in Srinagar, Pauri Garhwal, Uttrakhand

Uttarakhand is a disaster prone state. Every year the people residing the river here fears of landslide and flood due to heavy rain. The disaster of June 2013 that occurs through flash flood and heavy rainfall was the massive one. Whole Uttarakhand was affected specially the Rudraprayag, Tehri and some part of Pauri district. Srinagar which is located in the left bank of Alakhnanda river basin was also highly affected by the overflow of water in Alakhnanda River. The main aim of this study is to know the present situation of people post disaster in Srinagar. To access the health (mental, physical and social) and sanitation of people now. It also measures the satisfaction level of people with the support of government during and after the disaster. The purpose of this study is to assess the health status of community of Srinagar after years of disaster in affected area. It also involve the rapid health assessment and surveillance of people under affected area .It gave an opportunity to investigator to assess the disease burden to disaster affected people in the form of communicable and non communicable disease in long term through analysing the different incident of the people in affected area in the form of economic , social and emotional loss and its impact over health status, investigator suggest the measure of improvement and recommend some guideline to local health authority and govt of Uttarakhand to implement best policy to combat with future disaster .