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Said session is under a Comprehensive Plan of Dengue Prevention, carried out by the Municipality of Tigre and aimed at integrating all social actors in the prevention of this vector-borne disease transmission.
It was held on 16 November 2009 at the Casa de la
Cultura in Tigre and it was honoured by the presence
of Dr. Juan Bisset, Chief of the Vector Control Department
at the Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kouri",
from Cuba; the Chielf of the Zoonosis Department of
Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas "Francisco Muñiz",
Dr. Alfredo Seijo; the Secretary of Sanitary Policy
and Human Development of Tigre, Mrs. Malena Massa and
the Executive Manager of Fundación Mundo Sano,
Licenciate Héctor Coto. Tigre Municipality Mayor, Mr.
Sergio Massa, and the Minister of Health of the Buenos
Aires province, Dr. Claudio Zin were also present.
At the session, local authorities remarked that, together
with Mundo Sano, they are taking prevention steps that
consist of placing ovitraps in Tigre district.
Quite recently, the Municipality of Tigre has signed
a framework agreement with Mundo Sano by which they
aim at strengthening technological and scientific development
in the healthcare sector, as well as promoting actions
to enhance policies to fight dengue in all the district.
One of the main goals has been to carry out a comprehensive
survey of the district so as to detect the neighbourhoods
that are more prone to having the dengue-transmission
mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
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