WITH an increase in dengue cases across the country, several strategies have been employed in Region Two to safeguard residents against the mosquito-borne disease.
Persons with dengue will experience high fevers, headaches, rashes and pain throughout the body.
Senior Environmental Health Officer and Coordinator of Vector Control activities, Shaleena Jaigobin said continuous fogging, distribution of abate, residual spraying and awareness campaigns are currently ongoing.
Jaigobin said that continuous fogging is being done by the Environmental Health Department at various hotspot across the region. Workers are also distributing abate, which is designed to treat standing water, ponds, swamps, polluted water or areas with recurring mosquito populations, in the entire region.
She told this publication that there is a massive sensitisation campaign that is currently ongoing to advise residents on how they could safeguard themselves against the mosquito-borne disease.
“We are doing our part as environmental officials and residents need to do their part and clean their surroundings and throw away all receptacles that are not in use,” Jaigobin said.
The region also has a massive cleanup campaign ongoing in all the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs). Fogging was done from Bushlot to Aberdeen and Onderneeming to Riverstown.
