Sensitise students to cleanliness, Ludhiana Additional Deputy Commissioner tells Education Department

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 22

To prevent the outbreak of vector and water-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Amarjit Singh Bains on Tuesday held a review meeting with the departments concerned.

The ADC (G) also directed the Education Department to sensitise students during online lectures to how to keep their surroundings clean to protect themselves and their families from vector-borne diseases.

Bains appealed to people to observe ‘Friday as dry day’ by cleaning all vulnerable points, including coolers, containers, pots and terrace in houses, workplaces or other places where there was a possibility of stagnation of water.

He said it was the best way to break the breeding cycle of mosquitoes that could mature from egg to adult in only a week.

Bains also directed health as well as Municipal Corporation officials to carry out surveys to check dengue larvae in residential as well as commercial areas and if any violation was found, challans be issued. He directed the MC officials to carry out fogging twice a day.

He urged all departments, including MC, Health, Police, Education, District Rural Development and Panchayat, Improvement Trust, Executive Officers of Civic Bodies, XEN Water Supply, Irrigation, Indian Medical Association, Punjab Roadways, Tyre Market Association, NHAI and NGOs, to work in tandem to save people from such diseases during the present difficult times.

Meanwhile, District Epidemiologist Ramesh Kumar informed the Additional Deputy Commissioner that the district had been witnessing a rise in the number of dengue cases as 19 cases had already been reported in the district.

Dengue cases on the rise in district

• Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Amarjit Singh Bains appealed to people to observe ‘Friday as dry day’ by cleaning all vulnerable points, including coolers, containers, pots and terrace in houses, workplaces or other places where there was a possibility of stagnation of water.
• District Epidemiologist Ramesh Kumar informed the ADC that the district had been witnessing a rise in the number of dengue cases as 19 cases had already been reported in the district

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