dengue fever on the rise!!!

in January 2014 alone, reported dengue cases in Penang is 166 cases, which is almost 3 times of the cases reported last year same period of the time, out of these 166 cases, 2 persons have passed away due to this sickness, too bad one of them is in Relau (not vista), a foreigner worker...

Penang has classified as high risk area since last year, especially surrounding Taman Sri Nibong, the area opposite Pesta site, last year also some death cases reported over there.

It seems this year the situation has got worse, and we should not take it lightly, especially last month there's one case reported in Vista, few cases in the neighborhood as well....

we have to make sure the common area have no chance for mosquito to breed, so these are the steps to be implemented with immediate effect,

1) Cleaners need to make sure all the common drains would not clog, they need to clear all the rubbish found inside the drain, and each day before they go back to their hostel, they will need to make one more round to the drain, for this, the building supervisor will do his round too, before sign off from work at 5pm.

2) Cleaners will make sure nothing left in the rubbish room of every floor every time they clear the rubbish, supervisor will check their work on this matter every day, we also need residents to feedback to us if they have found over night rubbish have not been cleared by the worker & we will take against them!

3) We have fixed the day of every week for cleaners to check & clear if rubbish found in the semicircle structure (also called pottery area) next to the staircase of every floor, in fact this is a most likely place where mosquito lives! Due to the bad workmanship when they built these apartments, the rain water can't flow out completely & most of the floor will have stagnant water inside these structure every time it rains, some irresponsible residents have bad habit of throwing rubbish inside have made this problem more complicated. In the past we have paid contractors to clear sand, mud, papers, plants, pots, clothes, etc from these structure, but before long new rubbish found there again! So beside asking cleaners to check the structure, we also hope the said residents will come to their right senses & stop throwing things there.

4) Supervisor will check & clear empty pots/container from common areas regularly, especially corridors, we hope that our residents will do their part not to keep any empty pots or containers because these have high chance for mosquito to build their nest.

do share with us if you have good idea on this.

thanks.