The Hindu    06.09.2012

VMC launches drive

Officials of the public health wing of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation clamped down on tyre repair shops near Gorila Doddi on Eluru Road, around Government Ayurvedic College and on Gopalareddy Road in an attempt to locate potential breeding grounds for Aedes mosquitoes that are vectors of dengue and chikungunya.

A squad of VMC workers, led by Health Officer Babu Srinivasa Rao and biologist S. Nukaraju, inspected tyre shops and advised the shop owners, to put the tyres which were currently being left in the open inside the rooms. If they could not put the tyres inside they should put them in one place and cover them to prevent rain from collecting them.

Meanwhile the number of suspected dengue cases that were being treated in hospitals in the city increased to 12, according to the daily report received by VMC Chief Medical Officer M. Satyanarayana Raju.

Dr. Raju advised all to use mosquito nets and throw away water that has been stocked for more then three to four days. The number of malaria cases under treatment in different hospitals was 18, he said.