Car appeared with which fumigations were carried out to prevent the proliferation of dengue

It is a vehicle on which the Health Secretariat’s fumigation bomb will surely remain mounted.

The vehicle, lost for a long time, is in the possession of an individual who keeps it detained because they have not paid for several years of parking.

A new episode worthy of being written among the Macondian passages that emerged from the pen of García Márquez, is occurring in the department of La Guajira where a private citizen, owner of a parking lot Riohacha, decided to prevent for several years the departure of the Government’s country car on which the stretcher or fumigation bomb against mosquitoes should be mounted.

Yilka Diaz Palacio — Yilka Díaz Palacio.

In recent years it was impossible for the Ministry of Health to comply with the obligation to advance the preventive fumigation days to attack the mosquito and its larvae, and then some officials launched the ‘smoke screen’ that fumigating was a greater risk for citizens. with poison in residential areas due to the damage that some substances, such as malathion, could do to human health.

That argument was enough for many social leaders in La Guajira to stop demanding the fumigations with the vehemence they were doing. Months and years passed without more scientific explanations being given as to why there was no massive fumigation as they did before and this journalistic medium managed to unravel the reality of the case and it is nothing other than that it has not been possible to convince the citizen of the parking lot. or warehouse where the car is located to allow it to leave and they have not arranged the money to pay it to whoever claims for the service provided.

It seems that the debt is greater than the current value of the car

The Secretary of Health of La Guajira, Yilka Diaz Palaciotold this newsroom that they are duly aware of the case and added that it is the Legal Office that is making contacts with the citizen who has the car and who is making the payment.

This, the aedes aegypti, is the vector that transmits dengue that claims so many lives in the country.

“The truth is, I don’t really know how much the debt is, you know that not long ago we came to the Government and tried to put all the matters in order, at least this case has been addressed by the Legal Office and that is where they negotiate with the owner of the winery to know how much will be paid in the end, I understand that there is even talk of a contract with the same citizen”said Secretary Yilka Diaz.

They are going to continue with the fumigation days

Given the current situation that the Guajira community is suffering due to the proliferation of dengue, the official explained that they are going to spray against the sancudo and for that they are preparing brigades with manual or back machines. Among the municipalities that are on the fumigation list are: Manaure and the municipality of Dibulla, where the statistical reports on the incidence of dengue are more marked. The official did not rule out that another city in which fumigations are carried out against the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits the disease, is Riohacha.