Kathmandu: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is going to use the organic insecticide ‘Bio Larvicide’ to destroy mosquito larvae to control dengue in the metropolitan city.
Mayor Balen Shah shared that Bio Larvicide is going to be used for the first time in Nepal to destroy the mosquito larvae. Shah said the insecticide is organic and it does not harm any other creatures except mosquitoes and their larva.
Using a social site, he writes, “Bio Larvicide is organic. It does not harm any other creatures except mosquitoes and their larva. It is not a pesticide. The insecticide should be sprayed on top of the water. It produces poison in the abdomen of larvae and destroys the digestive process, thereby killing the larva. Larva and pupa of all types of mosquitoes spreading dengue, filariasis, and malaria will be destroyed from it.”
An arrangement for counselling regarding dengue has been made from a free hotline telephone 1180 round the clock, free ambulance service has been made by contacting 102 if a dengue patient needs to visit the hospital and distribution of necessary medicines required for dengue treatment including paracetamol and Jeevan jal (oral rehydration salt) at health centres, added Mayor Shah.