New Delhi, October 16: With the capital seeing a spurt in dengue cases, civic bodies have intensified measures to prevent its spread and sent notices to various government buildings and the AIIMS director for high mosquito breeding.
“A notice has been sent to the AIIMS director after high breeding indices were found in the overhead tanks of the servants’ quarters near his home,” NDMC Chief Medical Officer (Malaria) R N Singh said.
He said high breeding has also been found in several government buildings in areas like East Kidwai Nagar and blamed “laxity” by CPWD for the situation.
“Overhead tanks in most of these buildings are inaccessible. Their covers are broken and in some cases there are no cover at all. Due to this, there is high mosquito breeding. We have written to the CPWD but they are yet to take necessary steps,” he said.
–Agencies