Spraying campaign continues in Sudan’s Khartoum state

Sudan’s Ministry of Health has announced that the insecticide spraying campaign will continue in Khartoum state for another 12 days, using some 65 lorries donated by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS).

The official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reports that Minister, Prof. Mamoon Humaida, who inaugurated the second spraying campaign, said the campaign would also include removal of remains of the animals slaughtered during the Eid Al-Adha festivities and other insect breeding areas.

He said the first campaign for vector eradication was successful and that it covered over 60,000 households in the state, involving the use of aircraft and lorries, besides the use of smoking inside the households, drying water pools inside the quarters, and encouraging the use of special sacks for collecting refuse.

The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Dr Babiker Mohamed Ali, has meanwhile said that the spraying campaign would continue during the rainy seasons coupled with efforts to dry water pools, thus fighting sources of infection.

He said the campaign would cost more than SDG554,000 ($89,000).

(Source: SUNA)