HC stricture on dengue menace

The high courtroom (HC) determined on July 17 that the 2 city agencies have failed to tackle the outbreak of dengue infestation and that it has already cost the lives of extra than 20 people. For the duration of the listening to of a writ petition by using a rights business enterprise, the HC said that the city companies are run with taxpayers’ cash and it’s miles vital to scrutinise wherein the Tk 20-22 crore allocated for this reason is being used, because it’s miles obviously no longer being spent to incorporate the Aedes mosquito population.
We know that the quantity of recorded dengue fever cases in can also and June of this yr turned into more than 5 instances that of the corresponding months of closing yr. A record in this paper in early July quoted the Directorate preferred of fitness offerings (DGHS) saying that even as an insignificant 347 people were infected with dengue inside the months final 12 months, a few 1,864 got infected at some point of this can-June period. And whilst a selected town mayor may additionally opine that the drugs being implemented now are barely much less powerful and that new tenders have been floated to herald stronger medicinal drug, the query is, exactly what are the people of this town to do at some stage in the six months it will take for the new cargo of sprays to are available in?

The DGHS has stated that dengue fever in Bangladesh is now a virus sickness. That means the dengue mosquito will stay lively at some stage in the yr. That being the case, is it now not time for the government to start treating the combat against Aedes mosquito as a concern fitness problem? Human beings are death and we need greater than phrases to maintain our cherished ones secure from this deadly disorder. With any luck, the cries of cherished ones who’ve had the misfortune of dropping someone near will attain the ears of these who have been entrusted with maintaining the general public secure from the sort of powerful outbreak of the dengue fever.