2 more suspected dengue cases put schools on alert
Maitri Porecha & Puja Pednekar / DNA
December 11, 22:34 IST
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Mumbai: Two more children from the Malwani MHADA colony, suspected to have dengue, were admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri on Tuesday. Alarmed city schools are on alert.
Brothers Mohammed Faiz, 17, and Mohammed Faiz Idris, 15, were admitted to the hospital after their condition worsened in a private nursing home in Malad over the past two-three days. Idris is a Std IX student at Ryan International School, Malad.
Schools, especially those in the western suburbs, are taking preemptive measures to ensure that dengue, and other such diseases, don’t spread among students. With BMC’s help, school authorities are conducting fogging sessions on their premises.
Yogesh Patel, director of Swami Vivekananda International School in Gorai and Borivli, said, “School premises need to be completely safe and germ-free for children. Suburbs have a big mosquito problem. The BMC is supposed to do fogging regularly, but it doesn’t. Hence, we have scheduled fogging sessions in the next few days.”
Avnita Bir, principal of RN Podar School, Santa Cruz, said as such mosquitoes are found in stagnant pools of water and dusty corners, such as under the benches, they have alerted their housekeeping staff to clean classrooms well.
Schools with a sprawling green campus, such as Rajhans Vidyalaya and Holy Family School, in Andheri, have doubled their efforts to maintain a safe, mosquito-free environment for students. Father Francis Swamy of Holy Family School, said, “Ever since reports about dengue have resurfaced, we are taking care to ensure that students don’t fall sick. We held fogging sessions and took other preventive measures as well.