The Statesman 23.05.2013
Vector-breeders to face KMC heat
Mr Ghosh was talking to reporters after a meeting with chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee at Writers’ Buildings. Senior officials of the health department attended the meeting to chalk out plans to combat dengue this year. The chief minister has instructed to conduct a meeting every fortnight at Writers’ Buildings as a preventive measures to counter the disease.
Notices will be sent twice to house owners, commercial establishments and offices asking them to remove stagnant water failing which they would be produced before court and legal action would be taken against them, said Mr Ghosh.
Last year Miss Banerjee had asked officials of the health department to start an early drive against dengue this year. It is learnt that the chief minister also stressed upon the need for training a few health officials of Bidhannagar municipality.
The chief minister also wants the heads of municipal corporations and municipalities to undertake a special anti-malaria and anti-dengue drive across the state.
Last year the outbreak of dengue was first detected at Salt Lake and then it spread to adjoining Eastern Metropolitan Bypass areas. The KMC health department with a better infrastructure for fighting dengue, malaria and other vector-borne diseases, has been asked to coordinate with its counterpart in Bidhannagar municipality.
Mr Ghosh said the department had already launched an anti-dengue drive since January this year. "We've been concentrating on organising dengue workshops at ward level where doctors, teachers and people of the locality would be told how to prevent dengue and in case there is an outbreak, how to combat the disease,” Mr Ghosh said. Mr Ghosh said the civic body will also distribute leaflets and banners in each ward to generate an awareness of the disease.The civic authorities have already started an anti-mosquito drive in Salt Lake, he added.
