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DGHS to start mosquito survey on 4 divisions tomorrow
DHAKA, Sept 20, 2019 (BSS) – Disease Control unit of Directorate General
of Health Services (DGHS) would conduct a survey in four divisions of the
country to implement a new work plan to detect the species of mosquitoes for
prevention of dengue.
“We would start the survey from Barisal Division from tomorrow. Phase by
phase the survey would continue to Khulna, Chattogram and Dhaka by
entomologists of the unit,” Director General of DGHS Dr Abul Kalam Azad told
BSS.
The location of the survey in Barisal Division has not yet been decided but
Jashore, Kushtia and Khulna districts under Khulna division would come under
the survey. Dhaka Division would be the last division to be surveyed.
Generally, three types of surveys are carried out in Dhaka. They are pre,
post and during the rainy season, which is mid-June to mid-August, but this
year an urgent survey was conducted in the month of July because of outbreak
of dengue.
According to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) research, the insecticides sprayed by the Dhaka City
Corporations have no effect on the adult mosquitoes as they have become
resistant to the varieties of insect repellent used on them.
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