National Malaria Elimination and Aedes-transmitted Disease Control Programme under DG Health, International Health Regulations (IHR) and Migration Health and Emerging Disease started an entomological survey on Saturday within 400-yard of the airport in the capital as per the international health rules 2005.
The survey will be conducted until June 25 with an aim to identify breeding ground of Aedes and other mosquito, detect density of larvae of Aedes and other mosquito, to observe the efficacy of larvicide and adulticide and take effective measures for mosquito control.
The entomological teams of CDC (Communicable Disease Control) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) are conducting the survey being divided in six blocks at airport and surrounding areas.
The survey team found larvae beside the guard room and generator room of customs house, beside the office of the airport health officials, and drains near the RAB Forces Headquarter (Division 3) on the first day.
On the second day, the survey team found no Aedes mosquito larvae. But they found larvae beside the guard room of main door and administration building, at airport tower building, at VIP terminal garden, in drains on the multi-storeyed car parking of the airport and beside the VVIP terminal lake.
