The meeting of the Regional Insect Resistance Committee, held this morning, Tuesday May 25, 2021 at the headquarters of the State, under the supervision of Mr. Bashir Attia, Secretary General of the State
ended up agreeing
to organize a joint campaign against insects over the next week over a period of four days between the municipalities of Monastir, Khneis, Benblat Al-Manara and the two Sahel Muammar, as well as to invite regional administrations to support the efforts of the municipalities to implement the axes of the regional plan to fight against insects in order to ensure the effectiveness of the intervention and invite the regional delegation for tourism to follow the process of treatment within tourist establishments and their external surroundings, and invite the administrations for disinfection to undertake the opening and cleaning of wastewater evacuation networks to reduce their flooding, and the maintenance of purification stations and pumping stations, and inviting the air administration to prepare, house and prepare soils by clearing and cleaning waterways and surveying regional and numbered roadsides, and the invi tation of the regional agricultural development commission to undertake the uprooting of parasitic weeds, the cleaning of roadsides and paths, the treatment of irrigation ponds or the planting of Cambodian fish.
The State Clerk stressed that the meeting of the regional insect control committee is part of the monitoring of the intervention programs of the municipalities to fight against insects for the summer and the tourist season. , stressing at the same time to organize the joint campaign between the neighboring communes to intervene in difficult areas and in the communal borders shared between the communes by physical and chemical interventions on the ground or the planting of Cambodian fish in ponds and where water stagnates in large swamps and deserted sections, while waiting to be intervened by air treatment, in particular in the tourist area and in Wadi al-Maleh (Hamada in Nabla and Khneis) and in the Moknin sabkha.
Today, representatives of the municipalities concerned presented their intervention programs over the past period, which generally consisted of interfering with black spots by pulling out parasitic weeds, filling in swamps, cleaning canals. evacuation of rainwater, intervention in the treatment of swamps, in addition to calling for their efforts at regional and national level, in particular the call to make the valley known. Khneis, Wadi Sidi Ismail in Aqaba in Monastir, Wadi Al-Ghadir and Al-Qasab in both coasts, Wadi Al-Maleh, Hamada, Benbla and Khneis, in addition to renewing the appeal to civil society to support the efforts of municipalities in the field of hygiene and respect for the environment and invite citizens to take more care of their gardens and to inspect water basins or wells or basements of houses, where applicable.
For reference, the Directorate of Health Preservation and Environmental Protection of the Regional Directorate of Health of Monastir counted and examined, during the period between May 10 and May 21, the nests breeding grounds, where the health authorities inspected 21 nests in the city of Monastir, of which 9 positive nests were found (irrigation basins in the irrigated area, The water estuary adjoins the weekly market, swamps in Farina, Wadi Sidi Ismail, estuary of a stream at the riding school at Dekheila ...) and inspection of 5 dens in Khneis, including positive swamps at Hamada Khneis near the Monastir Khneis belt road, and inspection of 4 dens in the municipality of both coasts, of which 3 are positive dens in each De Wadi al-Ghadir, al -Qasab and the outskirts of al-Sabkha, and inspecting 2 dens in the municipality of Benblat El-Manara, including a positive haunt in Hamada Benbla.