New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has strengthened their anti-larval measures and action to contain the vector borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue and Chikungunya in its area after being informed by National Vector Borne Disease Control Program (NVBDCP) about high chances of spreading the diseases.
The NDMC’s health department has directed to its cross checking team to speed up anti-larval action to check the President House, Rail Bhavan Sardar Patel Bhavan, Shastri Bhavan, North and South Avenue and Talkatora Marg premises.
NDMC has deployed two vehicle mounted fogging machine, around 30 portable fogging machine and 130 knapsack sprayer machine for anti larval action, a senior NDMC official said, adding that field workers are already visiting the area premises to find out collection of water at the construction sites and other places.
The number of Dengue and Chikungunya cases are found 2.5 times more compared to the last year up to April this year, he said, adding that the civic body has taken all the steps to contain the disease from further spreading.
“NDMC is issuing 50000 SMS every week to residents regarding actions to be taken from their side to contain spread of mosquito breeding in their locality,” he said.
There are around 162 Gang man for carrying out field activities in the area. Besides five sanitary inspectors have been posted to supervise the field work of malaria in all the 14 sanitation circles of New Delhi area, he added.
“We have also as issued advisory letters to Presidents and Secretaries of Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs), ‘markets trader's associations’ (MTAs), SHO of police stations and the executive engineers of CPWD for carrying out the all efforts to not allow mosquito breeding in their jurisdiction area.
Keeping the view of covid-19 pandemic situation, NDMC is carrying Information, Education and Communication Communication ( IEC ) activities with social distancing norms through video conferencing or mobile to mobile with RWAs, MTAs and other officials to take action by themselves for containing mosquito breeding.
The official further said that this year due to covid19, instead of interactive sessions for schools students, RWAs, MTAs or other public activities for awareness, NDMC is focussing on SMS messages; calling on mobile phones, video conferencing, placing of hoardings and posters in public places.