00:00Good evening. This is an announcement from the Pinal DB Regional Corporation.
00:06Spraying for mosquitoes is restarting now.
00:09You're kindly asked to open all gates, doors and windows.
00:13Cover all foodstuff, drinking water, birds and fishes.
00:17Everyone is asked to stay out of their houses while spraying is in progress.
00:22Please take all babies and sick persons to a safe place. Thank you.
00:31We have an aggressive schedule with all of our streets.
00:35800 plus streets in the Pinal DB region.
00:38And we have scheduled those streets both in morning and in evening shifts.
00:43So we have two shifts in the morning, two shifts in the evening.
00:46Aggressively trying to cover this region which is very large.
00:50And which contains a lot of rivers, a lot of waterways, a lot of households.
00:55And we are currently doing an unprecedented figure of over 1000 homes per day.
01:02Even so, Chairman of the Pinal DB Regional Corporation Gautam Maharaj says
01:08it will take about four months to cover the entire region.
01:13He says he was told there is no vehicle for the Insect Vector Control Department
01:18to move around this region to do house visits outside of confirmed cases.
01:23But he says they have offered corporation vehicles be used for the job.
01:28He says there are preventative measures which the Insect Vector Control Department
01:33personnel can implement which they are not able to on their own.
01:38There is peripheral work, that is where you go to the house or in the premises
01:44and you put granules in the water.
01:46There is before that inspection where you inspect, monitor
01:50and then you give a treatment plan.
01:52There is work where you can use the mineral oils.
01:55All of this needs to be scientifically guided.
01:58The regional corporation in collaboration with the Insect Vector Control Unit
02:02because it means that we can provide a vehicle if they have,
02:05the figure was around 40 warm bodies, personnel, trained personnel
02:10and equipment and chemicals.
02:12It means that we can work in a collaborative effort, provide some vehicles
02:15because we will spend nothing to save our residents.
02:19Chairman Maharaj says the situation is serious and urgent
02:23and greater effort is immediately needed.
02:27This situation is so grave and this situation is near outbreak or in outbreak
02:32that collaboration is necessary.
02:34Let us get past the bureaucracy.
02:36Let us create a command centre type approach that contains the Ministry of Health,
02:41CMOH staff, IVCD and the Pinaldebe Regional Corporation.
02:46And together we believe with the competencies, with the experience
02:50and as you can see with the excellent management demonstrated by the PDRC
02:54where we are out completing 1,000 homes in a day,
02:58we will surely be able to protect our residents.
03:01Cindy Raguban Tikasing, TV6 News.
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