Flood situation remained grim in south-west areas of Thrissur district on Monday.
Around 42 villages along the Kole fields remained inundated. Sixty thousand people from these villages have been shifted to relief camps.
Thousands of families in the panchayats like Edathiruthy, Kaipamangalam, Perinjanam and Mathilakam on the banks of Canolly canal are in relief camps.
Efforts are on to reconstruct the bund, which was breached, across the Karuvannur river at Arattupuzha.
Experts from Kuttanad started building bund with the advice of Army engineers. Work is going on at a fast pace.
The flood situation in the south-west areas can be checked only if the bund is constructed to control the flow of the Karuvannur river, according to experts.
Army medical team was deployed to Kuzhur and Kundur, worst affected areas in the district.
Anti-venom
Anti-venom for snake bites has been arranged in five hospitals in the district, according to the District Medical Officer.
The hospitals are Thrissur Medical College, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Kodungallur and Irinjalakuda government hospital and Irinjalakuda Cooperative hospital.
Health department asked the people returning home to be careful about poisonous snakes.