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  • 2 years ago
The Chairman of the Penal Debe Regional Corporation is calling on the Ministry of Health to heed their call for collaboration with the insect vector control department, to better combat the surge in dengue cases.

There have been at least two confirmed deaths linked to the dengue virus in South Trinidad, a teenaged girl and a 65-year-old man.

Chairman Maharaj tells our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh, while the PDRC has aggressively ramped up fogging across PDRC, more measures are required to get cases under control.
Transcript
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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