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Mayors urged to be more active to prevent dengue
DHAKA, Jan 6, 2020, (BSS) – Director General (DG) for health services Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad today urged the mayors of the country to remain aware about the mosquito-borne disease and keep their areas clean to check the breeding of Aedes mosquitoes.
“The dengue prevalence was high outside the city…it used to be believed that these elite Aedes mosquitoes are seen in posh areas but now they’ve spread elsewhere and outside of Dhaka. So, we’ll have to remain more alert about it,” he added.
He was speaking as the chief guest at an appraisal meeting on work plan to check dengue on 2020 at DG health office at city’s Mohakhali area organised by National Malaria Elimination and Aedes-transmitted Disease Control Programme.
Additional DG Dr Nasima Sultana (Admin), Executive Chairman at Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman also spoke with Additional DG (Planning and Development) and line Director of Communicable Disease Control (CDC) Dr Sanya Tahmina in the chair.
Remaining more active to deal the dengue problem the mayors were advised to make the people to clean their houses, office, and surrounding areas and to make sure water not to remain stuck anywhere,” they said.
The mayors were also urged to create awareness among the people of their areas including announcement from mosques, create consciousness among students by their teachers.
Dengue, a viral infection spread by the infamous Aedes aegypti mosquito, is the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease in the world today, according to the World Health Organization.
It is characterised by flu-like symptoms, including piercing headaches, muscle and joint pains, fever and full body rashes. But this year it shows “atypical” symptoms affecting brain, heart, and liver.
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