HC summons DSCC, DNCC chief health officers

The High Court Division on Monday asked  Dhaka North City Corporation chief health officer brigadier general Momimur Rahman Mamun and Dhaka South City Corporation chief health officer brigadier general Sharif Ahmed to explain on Thursday what they did to reduce aedes mosquito menace.

The summons directed them to be present at a hearing at 11AM on   Thursday to provide their explanations.

A bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice Md  Shohrowardi issued the summons after rejecting their written explanations on the issue.

No High Court in the World ever had to issue rulings to city corporations to free their cities of mosquitos.

The court said that the death toll due to dengue rose to 26 by Monday because the two mayors failed to free the capital from aedes mosquito as directed earlier.

Habiganj civil surgeon Shahadat Hossain Hazra died of dengue in the capital on Sunday night and at least 5,050 dengue patients were hospitalised in the first 22 days of July, 1,814 in June and 7,179 since January, according to the government’s health emergency operation centre and control room.

The court scolded the two city corporations after  they informed it that held meetings at  educational institutions, offices and residential areas to raise public awareness about the need to free the capital from aedes mosquitos instead of fumigating the capital.

The court said that the mayors tried to abdicate  their responsibilities to the public.

The court wanted to know why the two city corporations sprayed spurious medicines to free the capital from mosquitos.

The court wanted to know whether the government would import efficacious  medicines after dengue epidemic kill more people?

The court said that the government should take action on emergency footing as the dengue situation had spun out of control.

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