Dengue: Combing procedure against mosquitoes from Saturday
So that you can protect the city dwellers from dengue, a special clean-up operation to control Aedes mosquito will be launched in all 54 wards of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) from Saturday, reports UNB.
In a statement on Friday, the DNCC said the 10-day campaign will run from 10am to 1pm each day except Friday. Each ward has been divided into 10 sectors and each sector has also been divided into 10 sub-sectors for conducting these special combing operations.
As per DNCC's plan, these functions will be conducted in a single sector of every ward every day this means 10 sub-sectors per day. It really is expecting that the whole procedure will be completed in 10 days.
Each DNCC team will be joined by four cleaners and one mosquito eradication worker in each sub-sector. Forty cleaners and 10 mosquito eradication staff will continue to work in each ward.
Through the combing operation, nine entomologists from the Department of Health, three entomologists from DNCC, officials from the Department of Health insurance and the Department of Waste Management will be there to aid. The Department of Health provides assistance in controlling Aedes mosquito, including in the DNCC combing operation.
The places where in fact the Aedes mosquito larvae are available will be marked in this operation and DNCC will store pictures and addresses, mobile amounts of contact people and other necessary data of the places will be quickly stored within an app. This will generate a database of Aedes mosquitoe breeding in the areas beneath the DNCC.
The database will help DNCC to monitor the problem later when it'll be needed. The app was created by Brigadier General Amirul Islam, Chief Engineer of DNCC.
Earlier, several combing procedures were conducted in five wards from May 16 till before the Eid-ul-Fitr at wards 1, 6, 12, 18 and 32. In those days, 9,463 houses/places were inspected and Aedes mosquito larvae were bought at 187 of them.
Along with the combing operation, a mobile court headed by the regional executive officer and executive magistrates of the DNCC will be conducted.
The mobile court on 'Aedes mosquito control' project started operations on May 10 at the DNCC. The court has fined Tk 426,300 to different proprietors till Tuesday.
Bangladesh had a massive dengue outbreak last year when 101,354 persons were hospitalised. Of these, 101,037 made full recovery. According to official figures, the mosquito-borne disease killed 179 persons last year.
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives on, may 14 allocated Tk 30.63 crore for metropolis corporations and the municipalities to fight coronavirus and dengue.
DNCC has also started free dengue tests from May 11.
Experts warned that the administrative centre city may witness even a worse outbreak of dengue this year as the existence of Aedes mosquitoes is quite high in the first days of spring.
DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam urged the ward councillors and dwellers of DNCC to support and assist the combing operation to avoid the dengue crisis.
