West Manggarai Note 201 Cases Of Dengue Fever Since November 2022, The Regent Asks Residents To Be Nested With Mosquito Nests

Illustration. Officers absorb residential areas to eradicate Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that cause Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). (Between-Iggoy el Fitra)

West Manggarai Regent Edistasius Endi asked residents to keep the environment clean to prevent transmission of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) during the rainy season.

"We must improve environmental cleanliness, especially during this rainy season so that there is no transmission of dengue fever," he said in Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Thursday, December 15, confiscated by Antara.

The West Manggarai Health Service noted 65 cases of dengue fever occurred in October 2022 and 201 cases of dengue fever from November to December 11, 2022.

The Regent invited the public to support efforts to prevent dengue transmission by maintaining environmental cleanliness and eradicating mosquito nests intermediary for transmission of dengue virus.

"This disease is transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albocpictus mosquitoes who carry the dengue virus and live in puddles... If the environment is clean, we can be healthy," he said.

"Don't forget to drain, clean, and close the water reservoir meeting. We also have to bury used goods that have the potential to hold rainwater," continued Endi.

He also advised residents to use mosquito nets and anti-dUG drugs to avoid mosquito bites and sprinkling larvae in water reservoirs to prevent mosquito breeding.

In addition, the Regent asked the Health Office and the Public Health Center to intensify counseling on preventing the transmission of dengue fever.

Head of Disease Prevention and Control Division of the West Manggarai District Health Office, Fransiskus Dulla Kurniawan▁penanganan, said that counseling had been carried out to increase awareness of residents maintaining environmental cleanliness and eradicating mosquito nests (PSN).

"We provide mobile announcements about PSN 3M Plus and written appeals to the sub-district head in the context of early vigilance and responses to the increase in dengue cases," he said.