PM Prayut urges EOCs to ensure people are safe from dengue fever

BANGKOK, 16 October 2015 (NNT) - The Prime Minister has urged emergency centers across the country to make sure that the public is safe from the dengue outbreak.

Spokesman of the Prime Minister’s Office Maj. Gen. Sunsern Kaewkumnerd said today that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is worried about the well-being of the people due to the serious outbreak of dengue fever.

He said that the PM has urged all provincial governors, who are commanders of the Emergency Operation Center or EOC in their respective provinces, to work with the heads of their provincial health offices to tackle the dengue problem as effectively as possible in order to minimize the health risk and the number of fatalities among the people.

The Prime Minister’s concerns were expressed after more than 100,000 dengue patients had been reported this year.

The Public Health Ministry has, however, confirmed that the surge in the number of dengue cases remains cyclical, and this year’s figures are still less serious than those in 2013 when some 150,000 people were diagnosed with the dengue virus and 150 died from it.


-- NNT 2015-11-16

Closing barn door after horses ran out.

Must be some kind of a body count trigger that makes the PM tell subordinates to do their jobs, like scared ninnies afraid to exercise a little initiative by spraying for mozzies as a preventative measure, on their own authority.

If they were really concerned they would spray something akin to Kerosene on the water in the drains and any other place that still water sits. It's alot cheaper than treating a 100,000 patients.

Edited November 16, 201510 yr by rethaier

If they were really concerned they would spray something akin to Kerosene on the water in the drains and any other place that still water sits. It's alot cheaper than treating a 100,000 patients.

problem is if you spray too much you also kill the natural enemies of the mosquitoes so 3 weeks later you have the double problem from before.

If they were really concerned they would spray something akin to Kerosene on the water in the drains and any other place that still water sits. It's alot cheaper than treating a 100,000 patients.

problem is if you spray too much you also kill the natural enemies of the mosquitoes so 3 weeks later you have the double problem from before.

Dengue goes in a 6 year cycle. They know when it's going on be a bad year. They should have been fogging and educating the people months ago.

If they were really concerned they would spray something akin to Kerosene on the water in the drains and any other place that still water sits. It's alot cheaper than treating a 100,000 patients.

problem is if you spray too much you also kill the natural enemies of the mosquitoes so 3 weeks later you have the double problem from before.

Dengue goes in a 6 year cycle. They know when it's going on be a bad year. They should have been fogging and educating the people months ago.

I think it was 3 years ago there was a pretty good rash of dengue reported in the media and within a few days we had a guy, I presume sent by the government, come around with a fogger on his back spaying everyone's gardens.

The mozzies were particularly viscous that evening, but after another day, there were virtually none about, and for a good long while after that as well. I was told the powder killed the larvae which, I suppose, interrupted the next generation's breeding cycle.

If they were really concerned they would spray something akin to Kerosene on the water in the drains and any other place that still water sits. It's alot cheaper than treating a 100,000 patients.

problem is if you spray too much you also kill the natural enemies of the mosquitoes so 3 weeks later you have the double problem from before.

Dengue goes in a 6 year cycle. They know when it's going on be a bad year. They should have been fogging and educating the people months ago.

I think it was 3 years ago there was a pretty good rash of dengue reported in the media and within a few days we had a guy, I presume sent by the government, come around with a fogger on his back spaying everyone's gardens.

The mozzies were particularly viscous that evening, but after another day, there were virtually none about, and for a good long while after that as well. I was told

the powder killed the larvae which, I suppose, interrupted the next generation's breeding cycle.

Dengue is spread by daytime mozzies. Turn out all the water catch places, make sure any ponds have fish in them to eat larvae. Coils, repellent, etc etc. There is no reason for these outbreaks to occur, if only the govt would fog enough