NEW DELHI: Expanding his dengue awareness campaign, CM Arvind Kejriwal has invited union health and family welfare minister Harsh Vardhan and all central government ministers to join Delhi government’s ongoing campaign against vector borne diseases. In a letter to the health minister, Kejriwal urged him to direct all central government employees living in the national capital to participate in the campaign to make it a grand success.
Highlighting the need for public participation to make the fight against dengue a huge success, Kejriwal recalled that the initiative of odd-even in the fight against air pollution was a success due to collective efforts of everybody.
Delhi government on September 1 initiated a mass awareness campaign to make people aware of keeping their homes and surroundings free of any Mosquito breeding spots. Kejriwal stated in the letter that all city residents have been appealed to spend 10 minutes at 10 am every Sunday for the next 10 Sundays in checking their homes and surrounding areas to ensure there is no clean stagnant water anywhere where the aedes mosquitoes can breed.
“I began this campaign from my home on Sunday, September 1 at 10 am and so did all my ministerial colleagues, MLAs, councillors and Delhi government officers. We will continue this campaign for the next 10 Sundays, till November 15, since prevention of any kind of mosquito breeding is the most effective way to curb the spread of dengue and chikungunya,” Kejriwal stated in the letter written on Monday.
Inviting the health minister, Kejriwal stated: “I invite you and all central government ministers to participate in this campaign. Your participation will inspire many others to participate.”
AAP government has already roped city’s RWAs to participate in the campaign. The campaign has completed three weeks last Sunday. The RWAs apex bodies have pledged their full support to help the government reach out to all RWAs under their fold and motivate them to join the campaign to prevent the vector-borne diseases.
In past, Delhi has witnessed devastating effects of dengue. In 2015, 15,867 people were tested positive for dengue, and 60 of them had succumbed to it, forcing the government to launch comprehensive measures to check mosquito-borne diseases. Over the past few years, the number of dengue and chikungunya cases have come down considerably. In 2018, only 2,798 dengue cases were reported. Chikungunya cases have also decreased from 7,760 in 2016 to 559 in 2017 and 165 in 2018. The government wants to further check the number of dengue cases this year.
Highlighting the need for public participation to make the fight against dengue a huge success, Kejriwal recalled that the initiative of odd-even in the fight against air pollution was a success due to collective efforts of everybody.
Delhi government on September 1 initiated a mass awareness campaign to make people aware of keeping their homes and surroundings free of any Mosquito breeding spots. Kejriwal stated in the letter that all city residents have been appealed to spend 10 minutes at 10 am every Sunday for the next 10 Sundays in checking their homes and surrounding areas to ensure there is no clean stagnant water anywhere where the aedes mosquitoes can breed.
“I began this campaign from my home on Sunday, September 1 at 10 am and so did all my ministerial colleagues, MLAs, councillors and Delhi government officers. We will continue this campaign for the next 10 Sundays, till November 15, since prevention of any kind of mosquito breeding is the most effective way to curb the spread of dengue and chikungunya,” Kejriwal stated in the letter written on Monday.
Inviting the health minister, Kejriwal stated: “I invite you and all central government ministers to participate in this campaign. Your participation will inspire many others to participate.”
AAP government has already roped city’s RWAs to participate in the campaign. The campaign has completed three weeks last Sunday. The RWAs apex bodies have pledged their full support to help the government reach out to all RWAs under their fold and motivate them to join the campaign to prevent the vector-borne diseases.
In past, Delhi has witnessed devastating effects of dengue. In 2015, 15,867 people were tested positive for dengue, and 60 of them had succumbed to it, forcing the government to launch comprehensive measures to check mosquito-borne diseases. Over the past few years, the number of dengue and chikungunya cases have come down considerably. In 2018, only 2,798 dengue cases were reported. Chikungunya cases have also decreased from 7,760 in 2016 to 559 in 2017 and 165 in 2018. The government wants to further check the number of dengue cases this year.
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