PM calls for destruction of mosquito breeding grounds

[rooster59]

PM calls for destruction of mosquito breeding grounds

BANGKOK: PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed health agencies to call on the public to destroy mosquito-breeding areas every seven days.

"They must do this at home, at work, schools, childcare centres and also public places," he said yesterday during his weekly programme about efforts to contain outbreaks of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF).

Aedes mosquitoes can spread DHF, which caught media attention this month after news of well-known actor Tridsadee Sahawong fighting for his life due to this disease.

DHF has already hit more than 100,000 people this year, and killed over 100 people. Prayut said he has instructed the Public Health Ministry to improve diagnostic procedures at all hospitals to ensure DHF patients are properly diagnosed in time so they can recover.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/PM-calls-for-destruction-of-mosquito-breeding-grou-30273424.html

-- The Nation 2015-11-21

[daoyai]

I hope this is taken to mean, clean up the piles of rubbish, old tires etc. most aedes mossquitos breed in tiny ammounts of collected water, it the water is large enough for even tiny fish or dragonfly larvae they won't lay eggs there.

[DavisH]

I hope this is taken to mean, clean up the piles of rubbish, old tires etc. most aedes mossquitos breed in tiny ammounts of collected water, it the water is large enough for even tiny fish or dragonfly larvae they won't lay eggs there.

Added to that, there is no wan Authorities alone can do this. There must be a full on effort at the community level to reduce such breeding sites.

[jacky54]

Din't he promise to end corruption as well? not much chance of either happening

[DM07]

...bla...bla...bla...and even more bla...

[chainarong]

The only way that the destruction of mosquito breeding grounds can be successfully carried out is to nuke em , you of course can carry out preventive measures however that would fall on deaf ears, as it does each year, so unless Thailand wants to go nuclear and if they do , the first bomb they drop to eradicate another nuisance, is on Prayut - O head...............................

[kotsak]

Article 44 to eliminate all mosquitoes :>