Dengue search and destroy campaign to be launched in Kathmandu Valley

Local units in the Valley appear indifferent about disease control measures.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Health and Population called a meeting of elected local representatives from the Kathmandu Valley to discuss the growing risk of the dengue virus. But representatives, chiefs or deputy chiefs, from only six out of 18 local units in the Valley’s three districts—Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur—attended the meeting.