Fire dept’s high-pressure vehicles for sanitisation

TNN | Apr 13, 2020, 04:05 IST

The ongoing sanitisation drive in the city in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak

Prayagraj: To fight against the spread of novel (Covid-19 and prevalent mosquito menace posing the risk of vector-borne diseases has forced the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation ( PMC) to intensify fogging drive in residential areas.
The fire department has also given its three high pressure vehicles including one big ( 2500 litre capacity) and two small vehicles ( 400 litre each) to the authorities for sanitization purpose.
With demand for sanitization and fogging rising in all the five zones across the city , the f PMC authorities have also deployed over 15 vehicles for the sanitization and fogging purposes. A senior PMC official claimed that requests for sanitization and fogging are flooded with the PMC authorities from all corners of the city, and in a bid to reach out to all the 80 wards of the city, the PMC authorities have taken vehicles from the fire department to cover maximum areas of the city.
In view of the fluctuating temperature, which provide suitable breeding conditions to mosquitoes, the PM\C authorities have deployed six vehicles for fogging. The civic body is taking up fogging once in a day, particularly in late afternoon hours.
Chief fire officer RS Mishra told TOI that three vehicles of the fire department’s were being utilised for sanitization and the high pressure vehicle was used for sanitization in hotspot area as well as around the community health centre, Kotwa, where as many as nine Covid -19 patients have been quarantined.
A senior PMC official said that the fogging and sanitization work have been taken up on the priority basis by the Jal Kal department and we all five zones were being covered.
He said apart from sanitization, fogging will also prevent mosquito breeding and help curb vector-borne diseases.
The corporators too had demanded fogging and sanitization in their respective wards.
Senior corporator Mukund Tiwari said “We have demanded fogging, sanitization and proper cleanliness drive in all the city localities at a war-footing”. We have also urged the PMC authorities to depute adequate number of workers to cover maximum parts of the city, he added.