Lo Khere Chiang : Up to 300 dengue cases daily in MPP area

Lo Khere Chiang: Up to 300 dengue cases daily in MPP area

 

LO Khere Chiang (3rd left) posing with villagers during the cleaning campaign at Kampung Batu Kitang yesterday.

  

KUCHING: About 200 to 300  dengue cases are reported in the whole Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) area daily, MPP chairman Lo Khere Chiang said.

“Every day it happens throughout the area.  Sometimes more, sometimes less, but on average there are about 250 cases daily,” he disclosed when met during a cleaning campaign at Kampung Batu Kitang Lama here yesterday.

According to Lo, the figure was given by Medical Health Department. 

“The department gave us this statistic.  On average we have 250 cases. It is a bit more during hot weather,” he added.

“My advice to everybody is we must keep our environment clean. To combat dengue we must  keep our environment clean so that mosquitoes don’t breed,” he said.

According to Lo, just only keeping the environment clean is not enough as dengue mosquitoes also  breed in clean water.

“So if we keep the environment  clean  and we keep a pail of very clean water around,  that will also  breed dengue mosquitoes.  So to keep the environment clean, we should remove all containers that will store clean water for mosquitoes to breed,” he said.

Lo commended the cleaning campaign carried out at Kampung Batu Kitang yesterday.

“We decide to hold a cleaning campaign with the villagers here as they want to have cleaning campaign to clean up the kampung. This is a regular exercise,” he said, adding that every now and then  MPP organised a lot of cleaning campaigns and community events with the kampung people.

“Today is with Kampung Batu  Kitang, and I think it is an excellent idea  because kampung people themselves want to keep their kampungs clean  and  tidy. I think that is something really commendable,” he said.

“The kampung people themselves want their kampung to be cleaned. So they organise themselves together to  clean up their environment as we all know there are a lot of Aedes mosquitoes around,” he said.

“We just had our dengue campaign yesterday, and after the dengue campaign, now is the time to clean up  the area as there are a lot of empty bottles everywhere, tin cans and all those.

“These are things that will help the mosquitoes to breed.  But  it is a good thing that we are coming here today,” he said, adding that dengue is a serious problem.

Batu Kitang town is located at a very low-laying area and it gets flooded every time, said Lo who has been named as Barisan Nasional candidate for N13 Batu Kitang.

“We have put up a retaining wall at the riverbank at the back and we come in here to do improvement work every now and then; we have improved the drain here going down to the river and we have improved the drain at the back going down to the river. 

“We have just tar-sealed this access road inside the kampung, we have completed the drain leading to the river and we have built a retaining wall  at the back,” Lo pointed out.

Sarawak Tribune

Monday 11-Apr-2016