The city Corporation has called for the organisation of sanitation committees in every ward on Thursday and Friday to discuss fever control measures and waste management.
Corporation council members have been directed to lead the discussions and create awareness among the committee, which is to comprise NSS volunteers, Student Police Cadets, Janamaithri police, representatives of residential associations, political representatives, Asha workers, Kudumbasree members, periphery health staff, and other notable residents of the ward.
The committees are required to submit information regarding unoccupied open spaces in the wards to the Corporation’s health wing, so that the civic body may send notice to the owners of these spaces for keeping them clean.
The committees could also send notices on waste management and hygiene to public and private institutions and enterprises within the limits of the ward through the health wing.
A meeting of flat owners in each ward is to be organised at the earliest in order to identify unused and unoccupied flats where vector control measures are yet to be undertaken.
The owners of these properties are to be notified in order to ensure that toilets, plant pots and other spaces where water might be collected are cleaned in order to destroy mosquito larvae.
Garbage dumps
Any garbage dumps in the ward are to be cleaned and processed at available space within the ward itself.
Residents’ associations have been asked to ensure that garbage is not accumulated in the same location again.
Source reduction measures are also to be undertaken on school compounds with the help of Parent-Teacher Associations, with the Corporation’s health inspectors directed to specially train students for the same.
The Corporation recently launched WhatsApp service where the public can lodge complaints regarding dumping of waste in public places or related matters.
The sanitation committee meetings at the 12 wards with the highest incidence of fever will be attended by the civic body’s standing committee chairpersons, who will explain the present situation the committees.
Extensive fogging will be undertaken centred on 15 health circles under the Corporation’s limits, from 6 p.m. on Thursday. June 17 and 18 are to be observed as dry days.
