In Chennai, dengue preventive measures get intensified now
Posted on: 16/Oct/2019 9:34:50 AM
The intermittent rains in Chennai city have resulted in more number of people getting affected with dengue. Many steps are taken by the state government to prevent dengue now.
The latest news is Chennai Corporation commissioner, Mr. G. Prakash on Monday met officials to discuss and intensify dengue prevention measures.
The important information is residents, owners of the vacant plots, under construction building complexes and educational institutions would be penalized if the premises were found to be conducive to the breeding of mosquitoes. Mr. Prakash spoke about how boards must be put up at the schools to caution parents that it was an unsafe place. This would be done if the schools continue to be the mosquito breeding sites. He also wanted the residents to get penalized instead of just warnings for allowing their residences as breeding sites for the mosquitoes.
It must be noted that an amount of Rs 1 lakh would be collected as a penalty from those who own premises where mosquitoes develop. This was as per some zonal officials. An amount of Rs 39 lakhs has been collected as a penalty until now by the corporation.
The important information collected is a penalty or fine amount up to Rs 10 lakhs would be collected from a hospital that allows Aedes mosquitoes to breed on its campus. The backyards, terraces, and alleys of the hospitals must be kept neat and clean to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.
An official belonging to the corporation explained how the biggest challenge faced by the field workers was from closed houses, vacant plots and residents who do not allow the workers inside their houses.
It must be noted that from the control rooms itself the officials could monitor the situation. Point is the potential breeding spots or areas where dengue cases were reported to have been mapped to study patterns.
Fogging and removal of garbage would be intensified if a particular place was identified as a hot spot. By this, mindless fogging at all the locations would be avoided and fogging would be focused more on the hot spots only. The important piece of news is each of the 3300 corporation workers has been asked to inspect 500 houses every week.
