Thursday 28 / November / 2024
Muscat: The North Al Batinah Municipality has started a campaign to combat the Aedes mosquito at the governorate level and an exhibition accompanying the campaign.
Engineer Ali bin Dahim Al Omrani, Director of the Health Affairs Department in the North Al Batinah Municipality, reviewed the objectives of the campaign, which comes within the framework of the efforts of the North Al Batinah Municipality and its departments to eliminate the Aedes mosquito through the implementation of continuous campaigns in the various wilayats of the governorate.
Al Omrani added that in the campaign, 16 teams were formed to combat mosquitoes in cooperation with the Directorate General of Health Services in the governorate, with the implementation of 5,567 control campaigns that focused on mosquito breeding hotspots, in addition to activating the awareness and educational role in society by implementing 1,599 awareness campaigns in the wilayats of the governorate.
Engineer Sulaiman bin Hamad Al Sunaidi, Director General of North Al Batinah Municipality, emphasised the efforts made by the control teams through spraying operations using spray liquid, and the cooperation of community members to accelerate the control, achieve the desired goals of the campaign, and enhance community awareness of the dangers of Aedes mosquito reproduction.
Meanwhile, Dr. Khalid bin Said Al Saadi, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services, reviewed the statistics related to dengue fever, and stressed that the indicators are increasing and recommended the necessity of starting the fight and joining hands to limit the spread of the mosquito.
The event also witnessed the opening of the accompanying exhibition, which included a number of illustrative aspects of the progress of work in campaigns to combat the Aedes mosquito.
The event was sponsored by His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Busaidi, Governor of Sohar.
