Vector-breeders to face KMC heat

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.