Kalinga pushes ‘no clearing, no spraying’ policy vs dengue

TABUK CITY, Kalinga-- Rallying community involvement against dengue, the Provincial Epidemics and Surveillance Unit Office is pushing “no clearing, no spraying” policy.

PESU officer Jose ParditoJr said residual spraying may be given as government support to areas conducting their own anti-dengue activities except in cases of epidemics.

There is no use spraying areas with clogged water passages and canals since breeding sites of mosquitoes are still there. Eliminating dengue-carrying mosquitoes is far from reached, he said.

To eliminate dengue-carrying mosquitoes here, the province acquired new spray equipments and hired ten spray workers for massive residual spraying against dengue.  

Pardito said fight against dengue must be everybody’s concern calling on the need for multi-sector action.
He said because of aggressive eradication moves by stakeholders, dengue cases in the province have remarkably reduced.--Larry Lopez