Anti-dengue cleanup drive launched

The Rawalpindi district government has launched a grand cleanliness operation to clear away areas where mosquitoes can breed apart from educating people about the importance of cleanliness and measures that they can take to help contain dengue virus.

Under the campaign, some 1,833 sanitary workers of the Rawalpindi Waste Management Company (RWMC) and the private firm Albaryak, are collecting waste and shifting them to dumping sites in 62 tehsils daily, besides manual and mechanical sweeping, washing and drain desilting. Residents and traders have also been asked to keep pots, discarded tires, extra buckets or discarded bottles empty in their residences as they can collect rainwater and become breeding grounds for the dengue virus.

They were also asked to dump their waste in the company's waste containers allocated in their area or hand it over to sanitary workers.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2020.