{"id":58401,"date":"2016-09-05T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58401"},"modified":"2016-09-05T15:31:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T22:31:48","slug":"44-step-control-of-dengue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/05\/44-step-control-of-dengue\/","title":{"rendered":"4&4 STEP CONTROL OF DENGUE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Sri Lankan Association of Muslim Women & Girls Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is heartening to see many institutes have taken interest in controlling Dengue. It will be very profitable if all get onto a single plan and mode of action and work hand in hand.<\/p>\n

Actually if only the housewives can be persuaded to take the responsibility of making sure there are no breeding place for mosquitoes by and by\u00a0 the mosquitos will die. This can be done by the housewives \u00a0in 4 steps.<\/p>\n

1.0 \u00a0Declare Sunday 10 am as National Anti-Dengue Hour. Since the eggs of the mosquitoes take at least 10 days to hatch checking\u00a0 once a week regularly will prevent them from breeding.<\/p>\n

The whole nation must take interest in making sure to inspect the house premises and the gardens to check for possible dengue breeding places. A check list chart similar to the following to be used in every household every Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>\nWk1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vases<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pots and trays<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fridge tray<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gutters<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kitchen<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pet feeds<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shower tray<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bird bath<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garbage<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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  1. Garbage disposal into a covered container, either a compost bin, old bucket or even a pit but keep covered. The government can issue free compost bin to every household or give at a concessionary price. The housewives to be educated to put in ALL THE PERISHABLE \u00a0GARBAGE\u00a0 into containers so that they are not lying around to collect water.\u00a0 It is good that they are already segregating NON PERISHABLES\u00a0 separately and handing over to the garbage collectors.<\/li>\n
  2. To encourage planting and growing \u00a0mosquito repellant plants such as maduru thala, sera, mint, vinka ( mini mal) in every household, in pots, milk packet bags or on the ground. Plant these even on the roadsides.<\/li>\n
  3. To set up mosquito \u00a0traps as follows:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Boil one cup of water with half a cup of sugar until all the sugar is dissolved; \u00a0let it cool; add half a teaspoon of yeast and pour into the prepared plastic \u00a0bottles as follows. Wrap them in newspapers or dark papers and leave them around the house and in the garden in shady areas; these attract the<\/p>\n

    The state must take 4 steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Daily reminders in the \u00a0Mass media \u2013in TV, Radio, newspapers for the housewives to keep their surrounding mosquito free.<\/li>\n
    2. Dengue detection team- train them to educate and assist \u00a0the house holders in a friendly manner \u00a0to \u00a0keep a \u00a0mosquito \u00a0free environment<\/li>\n
    3. Printing simple, easy to read \u00a0leaflets in all three \u00a0languages and distributing to each and every household\u00a0 through municipality workers \u00a0and paste Posters all over the island reminding of the responsibility of every citizens to help curb dengue.<\/li>\n
    4. Lane to lane meetings of housewives to encourage the activities<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Sri Lankan Association of Muslim Women & Girls Dehiwela It is heartening to see many institutes have taken interest in controlling Dengue. It will be very profitable if all get onto a single plan and mode of action and work hand in hand. Actually if only the housewives can be persuaded to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}