Campaign intensifies against 'dengue' mosquitoes

Muscat: The Directorate General of Health Services for the Governorate of Muscat has intensified its campaign to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that causes dengue fever.

The Ministry of Health announced the monitoring of a number of cases infected with dengue fever, and several cases were recorded in the wilayats of the Muscat Governorate. Muscat and a number of other concerned authorities to form field teams to identify the locations of this Aedes mosquito.

The Department of Disease Control and Control has intensified field visits to the locations of the Aedes mosquito and organized several inspection campaigns in the wilayats of Seeb, Bausher, and Amerat and in cooperation with offices of the governors and walis.

The Minister of Health, held a meeting last Thursday to discuss the epidemiological situation in the Sultanate of Oman and the campaign to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

“The Ministry of Health has monitored the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in a number of wilayats of the Governorate of Muscat as it causes dengue fever, for which there is no specific treatment so far,” the Wali of Amerat said in a statement.