Day 6 (Oct 9, 2012): Vector Control Field Trip

In the day 5, we had done the theory part with PPKP Yusof Eating on the notification, vector control, law enforcement in the vector control etc.  Since the fogging (Aedes control) can only be done during evening, we couldn't follow the health officers around to see how the fogging was done. PPKP Yusof Eating knew that we couldn't join them for fogging due to our afternoon classes in the campus, he asked an health officer in the DHO to demonstrate the fogging equipments used in the vector control activities, such as the thermal fogger and show us the pesticides used for killing the Aedes & Anopheles mosquitoes.

Thermal Fogger

Store room (Fogging equipments)

Demonstration the use of thermal fogger:

After the demonstration, we was brought to the nearby villages for inspection of the houses for the larvae. The inspection was done from one house to another. The health officers told that the village they went for inspection was Kampung Suka Mari, which was recently flooded and it had become a potential place for the Aedes mosquitoes to breed. Hence, they inspected the houses for any flower pots, tyres, garbage bin etc which will hold the clear stagnant water in them for the breeding of the Aedes mosquitoes.


House to House inspection

Larva collection:

Almost every houses that kept flower pots, empty pails that were containing the clear stagnant water will carry the larvae. Hence, the officers collected the larvae and brought back to the DHO to identify the mosquito species.