On July 7, 65, at Chakkarat Wittaya School, Chakkarat Subdistrict, Chakkarat District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Mr. Polphi Suwanchawee, Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister President of the Aedes mosquito elimination campaign to prevent and control dengue fever organized by the Office of Disease Prevention and Control 9, Nakhon Ratchasima Province Dr. Sumet Ongwandee, Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Control 9 Nakhon Ratchasima, along with the VHV and network of partners Participate in the opening ceremony of the project
Dr. Sumet Ongwandee, Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Control 9 Nakhon Ratchasima, revealed that “Department of Disease Control Ministry of Health Forecast the trend of dengue epidemic in 2022, found that Thailand has a chance to find more dengue cases in every region of the country. and may see a maximum increase of regarding 10,000 – 16,000 cases per month since May due to the rainy season As for the dengue fever situation in Health Zone 9 since the beginning of the year until June 30, 2022, there are 322 cumulative cases, no deaths. separated by province Nakhon Ratchasima Province found 137 cases, Chaiyaphum Province found 51 cases, Buriram Province found 8 patients and Surin Province found 126 cases.
However, dengue fever control is effective. Must encourage the destruction of breeding grounds, sand removal to eliminate mosquito larvae, spraying chemicals to reduce the population of old mosquitoes. and environmental development, as well as relying on the participation of the VHV, community leaders, students, the public, and government and private officials in order to raise public awareness of the prevention and elimination of vector-borne mosquitoes; to reduce the breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes and to reduce the morbidity from dengue fever,” said Dr. Sumet.