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Minister appreciates progress of Dengue Control Week

Education Minister Bandula Gunawardane highlighted the progress of the `National Dengue Control Week' which concluded last Wednesday and said that the school authorities and children must take action to clean their school compounds almost daily to eliminate dengue mosquito breeding places.

While thanking principals, teachers and students of all Government schools for doing their utmost towards last week's dengue eradication program, the Minister focused attention on 50 percent of the schools which have been identified by area health inspectors as high risk mosquito breeding places.

It is reported that over 7,500 schools were inspected during the `National Dengue Control Week' that concluded on October 13. According to the Health Department nearly 300,000 school compounds, houses, gardens, agricultural lands and other public and private places were inspected by health officials during the National Dengue Control Week.

During the seven days, the health authorities had warned over 9,000 persons who had ignored the Health Department's request, to clean their premises within two weeks and avoid legal action. Minister Gunawardane told the Sunday Observer that children must consider this program as a national need.

The Minister also thanked the heads of several schools in Colombo, Galle and Kandy for the encouragement given to their students to maintain clean and tidy school gardens. The health inspectors had also issued notices on nearly 400 school authorities for not taking measures to clean their school compounds and destroy mosquito breeding places.

He said special mosquito eradication programs would also be conducted in schools in the North since statistics reveal that the school going population in the North has increased.

 

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