Ministry of Public Health has taken preventive medicine to heart and for 10 days visited 117,763 homes where 51,383 sites were found positive for the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, transmitter of dengue. A population of 276,806 residents were registered in the homes.
The Ministry of Public Health has taken a proactive approach to reach out and help families prevent the spread of dengue by eliminating mosquito breeding points in their homes.
Ministry of Public Health crews found containers that accumulate water where the virus-transmitting mosquito breeds.
The interventions took place from 8 to 18 April 2024.
Among the containers found in homes in different provinces of the country there were 169,920 water storage tanks and 137,819 others identified as bottles, rubber bands, vases and cans.
The 71,623 mosquito breeding sites were eliminated through actions of simply...
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