Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that effective insecticide will arrive within two to four days. He asked the authorities concerned to refrain from spraying ineffective medicine. He said this after attending a cleanliness drive in the city’s Mirpur Mazar road area.
He also asked the Awami League ward presidents and general secretaries and workers to come forward to cooperate with city councilors in carrying out cleanliness drives. “Cleanliness is a precondition of the destruction of mosquito breeding grounds, so cleanliness programmes must continue,” Quader said.
He also said dengue patients are on the rise in Dhaka city and the dengue situation is yet to be brought under control.
“We’ve taken the dengue prevention programme seriously and as per the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, we’ve been working in this regard,” he said. Meanwhile, the LGRD ministry sanctioned taka 15 crores to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation to control Aedes mosquitoes.
Besides, taka 30 crores has also been allocated to the country’s all municipalities on an urgent basis, Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam said on Wednesday. He said this while taking part in a view exchange meeting with the members of the Bangladesh Climate Change Journalist Forum (BCJF) at his secretariat office.
“Apart from LGRD, other ministries are also working round the clock to control the Aedes mosquitoes and provide proper treatment to the dengue infected patients,” he said. Meanwhile, the health ministry has formed 10 high-level teams to monitor the situation of dengue infections round the clock. All the civil surgeons in the respective districts have been alerted over the situation and medical teams are being sent to each district to provide training on dengue treatment.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a total of 2,348 people were infected with dengue in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning.
Of them, 1,284 were infected in the capital alone and five of them were suffering from dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) while another from dengue shock syndrome (DSS).
A total of 29,912 people were hospitalized across the country with dengue since January 1. At least 7,968 patients, including children, are undergoing treatment at hospitals now, while the rest were discharged after treatment. Currently, a total of 5,182 patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka, it said.
