Muscat municipality organizes an awareness programme on pest control
By: Bushra Al-Busaidi
The Directorate General of Muscat municipality in As`Seeb organized an awareness programme about the fight against pests. The programme has focused on two key aspects; educating members of the community in pest control and on the field pest control campaigns.
The programme aimed to raise awareness among citizens and residents and sellers in markets of the ways to keep the environment free of pests and rodents.
During the programme, the municipality has sought to activate the partnership ties with the society and to cooperate with government and social institutions, such as the the Shura Council.
On the other hand, the field teams has made some field visits according to a daily schedule, equipment with baits against rodents plus targeting the sewage tunnels at houses with special chemical pesticides.
The program has also included awareness campaign to residents and citizens plus distributing some awareness leaflets for vendors and customers, plus other posters on anti-mosquitoes (Together against mosquitoes) for the houses under construction and introducing contractors and their employees about their role in the control of public health against pests.
A plan was prepared intends to reduce the number of telecommunications at the center, and to limit the reproduction of rodents in summer period.
As for the rodents, the control campaigns have been intensified including (fixed traps, fishing nets, and adhesive traps, and chemicals.
The results of the program were promising as through that studies, a decrease has been recorded in the total number of communications received by the department.