Zahid for fighting dengue through public awareness

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has underscored the need for creating public awareness to prevent dengue, reports BSS

Zahid asked the authorities concerned to intensify efforts of controlling Aedes mosquitoes and continuing cleanliness drive in the city to protect the city dwellers from the mosquito menace, said an official press release on Sunday.

He said the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, the Local Government and Rural Development Ministry and the city corporations should take combined efforts to check the spread of dengue, added the release.

The minister was speaking at a view-exchange meeting with the 'Bangladesh Awami League Dengue Prevention and Treatment Monitoring Cell' held at the Secretariat.

With the health minister in the chair, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Convener and Chairman of the cell and Bangladesh Medical Association President Dr Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin and cell members--Health and Population Affairs Secretary Dr Rokeya Sultana, vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Dr Kanak Kanti Barua and Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad general secretary Dr M A Aziz.