Rajkot: As many as 81 premises were found to be having mosquito breeding sites during the check conducted last week by the health department of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC). Subsequently, the premises were slapped with notices and fines worth Rs 30,550 was collected from them.
“Last week, the RMC checked 422 premises which included 96 hospitals, 189 scrap yards and 125 construction sites. A total of 81 sites were found to be having mosquito larvae, subsequent of which they were issued notices and slapped with fines,” said L T Vaja, health officer of the RMC health department.
“The eggs of aedes aegypti mosquitoes that cause dengue exist for more than a year in the still water. Hence, the checking of such premises becomes very important,” said P P Rathod, deputy health officer of the RMC health department.