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Dengue drive to begin, at last

Staff Correspondent
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will launch a three-day special cleanliness drive in the capital tomorrow in a bid to contain spread of dengue fever.
DCC Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka announced this yesterday at a meeting of the DCC Advisory Committee on Cleanliness and Mosquito Control.
The drive begins in Kalabagan area tomorrow morning, and it will cover Dhanmondi area in the afternoon.
National Professor and noted paediatrician M R Khan and environmentalist Prof Muzaffer Ahmad are likely to inaugurate the drive in the two areas.
The drive will be conducted in Gendaria on Sunday and in Mirpur on Monday.
Addressing the meeting, Khoka said that until September 30, a total of304 dengue patients were admitted to various city hospitals. There was however no case of death.
Prof Khan, an expert on the advisory committee, advised the city dwellers to use mosquito net or at least mosquito spray to prevent mosquito-bome diseases including dengue. They should not allow clean water to remain stagnant in any containers inside their houses for more than five days
He suggested that dengue Eatients should take adequate quid and fever reliving medicines as per physicians' advice.
Symptoms of dengue include high body temperature and ache, vomiting tendency, sweating and haemorrhage, Khan mentioned
Prime minister's adviser on health and family welfare Prof M Syed Modasser All said at the meeting an integrated action is a must to tackle a situation like outbreak of dengue.
Lawmakers from Dhaka. DCC councillors and medical experts, who attended the meeting, underscored public awareness and cleanliness at every house to contain breeding of aaes mosquito fades causes dengue) and prevent dengue.
Lawmaker Ilias Uddin Mollah alleged DCC cleaners do not perform their job as required.
Asaduzzaman Khan. MR said most of the city drains are clogged with solid waste.
About swine flu. State Minister for Health Dr Mujibur Rahman Fakir said Bangladesh would get swine flu vaccine from the World Health Organisation by January next year.
Others who spoke at the meeting included Prof Muzaffer. Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed, writer Imdadul Haq Milon, DCC Councillor Peara Mostafa, film maker Chashi Nazrul Islam and painter Mustafa Monowar. Hashed Khan Menon, MR presided.