Ministry of Public Health has taken preventive medicine to heart and for 10 days visited 117,763 homes where 51,383 sites were found positive for the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, transmitter of dengue. A population of 276,806 residents were registered in the homes.
The Ministry of Public Health has taken a proactive approach to reach out and help families prevent the spread of dengue by eliminating mosquito breeding points in their homes.
Ministry of Public Health crews found containers that accumulate water where the virus-transmitting mosquito breeds.
The interventions took place from 8 to 18 April 2024.
Among the containers found in homes in different provinces of the country there were 169,920 water storage tanks and 137,819 others identified as bottles, rubber bands, vases and cans.
The 71,623 mosquito breeding sites were eliminated through actions of simply throwing away the accumulated water, turning over the pots or eliminating them. The Ministry of Public Health sai that 149,778 containers were treated with larvicides and 6,918 fumigation actions were carried out to eliminate the adult mosquito.
Likewise, during the 10 days of the intervention, according to the Ministry of Health report, 76,920 brochures or posters were delivered; 23,111 covers for water storage tanks were delivered; 24,201 housekeepers were given instructions on how to use chlorine to clean the containers and 2,411 mosquito nets were delivered.
The families are expected to learn from the experience and continue to keep their homes free from mosquito breeding points.
With the National Day against Dengue that was officially launched last Wednesday, 9 April 2024, the authorities sought to mobilize and integrate society with actions aimed at avoiding a high incidence of dengue during this year.
The Minister of Public Health Victor Atallah, a cardiologist, comes from a private practice of functional medicine.
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Listin Diario
23 April 2024