“The health situation in the city is satisfactory,” Director of the Health Affairs in Jeddah Sami Badawood said after a visit to the Tawfeeq district on Saturday.

Health workers have been sent to all districts with special attention to flood-hit districts in order to monitor the situation and take necessary precautions against flood-related infections, such as dengue fever and malaria, Badawood said. “No cases of infection has been reported over the past days,” he said.

He added that centers of preventive health are operating in the districts of Hamra, Safa and Suleimaniah.

“Health workers take samples from cisterns in residential areas and sent for lab tests to guarantee that the water is potable, as a number of cisterns have been contaminated in the flood,” he said, adding that the percentage of chlorine in pipe water would be increased from 0.2 to 0.5 percent in collaboration with the National Water Co.

The director also warned people to avoid stagnant water, which is a breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Health workers discovered 13,634 people with various nonflood-related ailments during their visits to districts and referred 2,529 cases to local hospitals.