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Region Six now fogging five days per week

Mar 31, 2016 News

– Continues to monitor Zika and other vector borne diseases

Fogging had to be intensified in Region Six. Recently, residents of New Amsterdam and surrounding communities were affected by swarms of mosquitoes during daylight hours.
Regional Health Officer, Jevaughn Stephens, said that fogging exercises would be carried out five days per week. He said fogging commenced on February 2, last, along with the distribution of medicated mosquito nets, but due to the lack of resources all the areas could not be fogged.
Stephens explained that a team from the Ministry of Public Health’s Vector Control Services has been sent to the Region to continue the fogging exercise,
“We have 10 machines and five vehicles which will be fogging in all the problem areas. The aim is to ensure, over a period, that we touch the entire Region so as to keep the mosquitoes down.
While we speak of those mosquitoes, we don’t want persons to feel that it’s the fogging alone, we want to ask persons to clean your surroundings, front and back drains, ensure you store water properly,” Stephens urged.
The Regional Health Officer has assured that other measures will be put in place to ensure that the region remains free from any vector borne disease.
“We had 5000 treated nets distributed across the region through the maternity unit here at the New Amsterdam Hospital and we sent to the health centres across the region.
“We have 26 health centres across the Region. So we sent to the health centres because they will be the first persons to interact with pregnant mothers. From the time you know you are pregnant you go to the health centre and you must be issued with this net,” Stephens said.
Treated mosquito nets are also being distributed in the Orealla/Siparuta communities where there has been one confirmed case of Zika in Region Six.
The Regional Health Services department continues to monitor for Zika and other vector borne diseases.

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