A workshop on prevention and control of vector-borne diseases was organised by the public health department of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to make people aware about the menace. It was also stressed that a coordinated efforts needed by all the stakeholders to overcome the challenge of the diseases.
SDMC Commissioner P.K. Goel said that the workshop is being organized only because of the fact that the vector borne diseases could not be controlled despite earnest efforts of all agencies. The Corporations and other agencies have been swinging into action only after the situation starts going out of control in months of July, August and September.
“It is time to complete all preparations well in time and keep ready the required men, machines and material. I have asked the entire concerned department to hold consultations with the RWAs so that the preventive measures could be taken,” he said.
Goel also instructed the officers to send a team of experts to Surat to study the system of desilting the drains. He further asked the offices to identify the cases of dengue and chickengunia spreading in Delhi from other states.
“To prevent such a vector borne diseases is not only responsibility of health department but the community has to ensure that there is no breeding of the mosquitoes. It is need of the hour that all stakeholders must work in tandem to ensure to minimize the loss from such diseases,” said a Corporation official.
SDMC Mayor, Shyam Sharma while addressing the inaugural session exhorted all concerned to make Delhi mosquito free. SDMC is ready to fullfill its responsibilities and take all possible measures to overcome the outbreak of the diseases.