Anti-dengue operation: Madurai Corporation imposes ₹ 10,000 fine on two commercial establishments

Madurai Corp. fined two commercial establishments ₹10,000 each for breeding Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which cause dengue. 530 domestic breeding checkers are conducting door-to-door checks. People must destroy mosquito breeding sources, cover drums with water, and use abate solutions and oil balls in sewage channels. 11 dengue cases have been identified in Madurai this Sept.

Madurai Corporation imposed a fine of ₹ 10,000 each on two commercial establishments, including a popular textile showroom, on charges of breeding of Aedes aegypti, mosquitoes that cause dengue.

During a routine checking, domestic breeding checkers employed by the Corporation found mosquito-breeding sources like old tyres and and drums with stagnant water in Saravana Selvarathinam Stores and one Devendiran Workshop.

The Corporation Chief Health Officer S. Vinothkumar said that similar door-to-door checking would continue as part of anti-dengue activities. “Penal action would also continue against those who are found allowing breeding of mosquitoes,” he said.

A total of 530 domestic breeding checkers are conducting door-to-door checking.

“Usually, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes breed in artificially stagnant fresh water and not in ponds and lakes. So, all those sources should be destroyed to prevent breeding of mosquitoes,” Dr. Vinothkumar said.

He appealed to the people to comply with the Corporation’s advise as mosquitoes could breed in a few drops of water stagnant in coconut sheaths, old tyres, scraps, drums left open and plastic wastes could also cause dengue among the inmates of those houses.

Besides, people should be careful about the water tray in refridgerators, plastic plates kept under flower pots inside houses and the defunction water fountains in commercial establishments.