National President, Pest Control Association Of Nigeria was live on #yourviewtvc to review the world mosquito day 2022 themed “no mosquito, no malaria”.
Mosquitoes remain the world’s deadliest animals since they are the spreaders of diseases like malaria, dengue, and Zika.
However, the Pest Control Association of Nigeria (PECAN), in collaboration with the Rotary Club, recently carried out an awareness program targeted at enhancing personal cleanliness and healthy living among residents in several Lagos areas as part of satisfying its corporate social responsibility.
The program began with a neighbourhood fumigation exercise as part of plans to observe World Mosquito Day in 2022 with the theme “No Mosquito, No Malaria.”
The Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON), the highest regulatory body in the field of environmental health, and the Rotary Club, an organization known for its humanitarian work, joined forces to support the residents of this area in fumigating the drainage to eradicate the living of mosquitoes, according to PECAN Chairman Olakunle Williams, who addressed participants during the exercise.
“This would be the second time PECAN would partner with the Rotary Club of Gbagada. The first time was on April 25, 2019, during the World Malaria Day of that year when our Association,” Williams said.
Justifying the need for the event, Williams said, that World Mosquito Day was introduced as a mark of honour for the 1897 scientific discovery of a British doctor by the name of Sir Ronald Ross who succeeded in revealing to the whole world that the female anopheles mosquito was the cause of malaria.
“August 20, has been set aside internationally to create awareness as to the human deaths being caused by mosquitoes worldwide and to allow the world to see how these global deaths can be eliminated or abated.”
Nsirimobi, the president of Rotary Club District 9011, reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to supporting any initiatives that would continue to raise the standard of living for the general public.
He urged Lagosians to constantly take their environment’s cleanliness into consideration, saying that the Rotary Club places a lot of emphasis on disease prevention and treatment.
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