Second National Mosquito Eradication Week begins today

Ridma Dissanayake

The second National Mosquito Eradication Week for 2013 will commence today. It will be held until July 7, a Health Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

Senior officers attached to the Health Ministry, Defence and Urban Development Ministry, Environment Ministry, Local Government Ministry and Education Ministry launched the Mosquito Eradication Week under the guidance of Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena.

The inter-ministerial committee has planned to hold several programmes islandwide in line with the Mosquito Eradication Week. Plans are underway to hold awareness programmes and shramadana campaigns to identify and destroy mosquito breeding places throughout the country, the spokesman said.

Security Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and Civil Defence Force personnel will assist in the eradication of mosquito breeding places, he said.

Health Ministry officials urged the public to keep their surroundings free from dengue breeding places.

Inter-ministerial Committee chairman, Health Ministry Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilake will handover a special situation report on Dengue to the Presidential Dengue Task Force and the Cabinet.