An interdepartmental anti-mosquito steering committee today held a special meeting to review its work in response to the recent three local cases of Dengue fever, and examine how to step up preventive actions.
Chairing the committee, Permanent Secretary for Food & Health Marion Lai said the Government and the community must work together to conduct anti-mosquito work.
The Food & Environmental Hygiene Department has strengthened mosquito preventive and control work in the vicinity of the patients’ residences, workplaces, and areas they have visited during the incubation period.
The department has also hosted health talks and distributed health education and promotion leaflets to schools and hospitals nearby, and sent a broadcasting van to alert the people and advise them of the importance of taking mosquito prevention and control measures.
The department has also boosted anti-mosquito works in areas near the MTR Sai Ying Pun Station construction sites, where the first two patients worked.
The Development Bureau has reminded construction workers to undertake anti-mosquito measures.
Other departments have also stepped up their anti-mosquito work, as well as boosting publicity and education campaigns.
Mrs Lai added that the Government would closely monitor the measures' effectiveness and make timely adjustments if necessary, to better control the mosquito problem and minimise the threat.
