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We’re breeding mosquitoes
View(s):Early this week, with garbage bags in hand, teams of army personnel and health officials scoured rail tracks collecting and destroying discarded tins and containers which acted as breeding grounds for dengue mosquitoes.
The Krrish Square
Pix by Indika Handuwala
Breeding grounds for mosquitoes included abandoned pillar boxes of the Sri Lanka Post where hordes of mosquito larvae were discovered.
The team of officials also found that the construction site of the Krrish Square where rainwater puddles had formed was another source for mosquito breeding.
They said legal action would be instituted against those responsible for looking after the property.
Chief Medical Officer of Health of the Colombo Municipal Council Dr. R.L. de S. Wijayamuni told the Sunday Times ”… containers carelessly thrown out of trains plying along the Maradana, Maligawatta, Fort and Dematagoda Railway tracks by railway commuters had also become major breeding grounds for the dengue mosquito
These campaigns will be conducted throughout the next three months as well, he said.
 Sri Lanka Posts’ abandoned pillar boxes were also found to breed mosquitoes |
 Building sites too have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes |
A team of military and public health officials were seen scouring rail tracks in the city collecting and destroying containers carelessly thrown from passing trains