Health and Family Welfare minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday urged ward councilors to create awareness to prevent Dengue.
“Little more awareness can prevent the deadly disease Dengue,” he said, urging the ward councilors to distribute leaflets, display banners and conduct campaigns at their areas to create awareness among the people under the leadership of Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon.
He was speaking as the chief guest while inaugurating an awareness creating rally at city’s Nagar Bhaban premises.
The Minister suggested people to safeguard them by allowing no water congestion around their households or workplaces. The mayor also emphasized on creating awareness among people to prevent the Dengue disease.
The mayor, ward councilors and government officials attended the rally.
Staggered monsoon rains this year caused dengue outbreak with higher intensity with the health department recording so far 1,930 nationwide cases of the mosquito-borne tropical disease that already claimed four lives.
“Since the country witnessed staggered rains this year, we continued to receive Dengue patients since March,” medicine faculty dean of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Professor Dr ABM Abdullah told BSS.
Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) director Professor Dr Mahmudur Rahman told BSS, this year the lingered rains caused the high breeding rate of mosquito and the Dengue carrying species of the insect.
