The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Dr Robert Lucien Jean Claude Kargougou, launched on Thursday April 25, 2024 in Bobo-Dioulasso, the spraying operation of accommodation sites for festival-goers who came as part of National Culture Week (SNC). This initiative aims to protect festival-goers from malaria or dengue fever.
National Culture Week festival-goers will be safe from mosquitoes. In fact, they benefited from a spraying operation on their premises.
The agents trained for this task used liquid Kaltox to ‘disinfect’ all the sites where artists, festival-goers and all those who come for National Culture Week (NCS) will stay.
In addition to spraying, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene provided the SNC general management with mosquito nets to distribute to festival-goers.
For the Minister in charge of Health, Dr Robert Lucien Jean Claude Kargou, this initiative will allow festival-goers to reside in optimal conditions where they will not be bitten by mosquitoes.
‘We want a National Culture
Week without dengue. It is in this context that this indoor spraying activity takes place. Beyond this spraying, we considered it important to provide each festival-goer with a long-lasting impregnated mosquito net to ensure this physical protection of festival-goers,’ he explained.
According to him, this campaign also marks the beginning of the intensification of activities to destroy larval breeding sites and vector control in general.
The Minister of Health called on people to clean up their living environment.
‘You should know that all the executives who will host the activities of the SNC will be subject to spraying and, beyond this operation, that everyone can work to clean up their living environment,’ launched Dr Kargougou.
The Coordinator of this operation, entomologist Moussa Namountougou reassured that the products used are safe for humans.
‘We are going to use Kaltox which is a product which was evaluated in Burkina Faso in 2013. We were thus able to put in place a very effective product whic
h does not cause any health problems with the populations. Since 2013, this product is still effective and safe for populations,’ he reassured.
Source: Burkina Information Agency