Dengue prevention

Dengue prevention

Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso can spend public funds for
fumigation and the Ministry of Health can distribute
informational leaflets on dengue prevention but until there is
communal social responsibility, the dengue fever outbreak in
Jakarta will continue unabated.

In Kemang, where I live, there are many unoccupied houses.
These houses have half empty swimming pools that are neither
drained nor maintained and they have become ideal breeding
grounds for dengue. When will the government sanction the
absentee landlords responsible for creating this mosquito haven?
Until they do, I suspect that the four cases of dengue among our
neighborhood children will not be the last.

LUCY S. MIZE, Jakarta