Ceará has already begun to prepare for the most critical periods of proliferation of the mosquito that transmits dengue. The State Department of Health is expanding the fleet of cars fumacê to chemical control of Aedes aegypti. For this, the purchase was authorized by the state government of 10 pick-up trucks that will increase to 29 vehicles fleet of cars fumacê the secretariat. The current fleet, 11 vehicles are in the Regional Health Coordination of Sobral, Tianguá, Tauá Camocim, Iguatu, Swamp Ghost, Crato and Juazeiro eight Central and UBV.

Chemical control of mosquitoes with insecticides is done exclusively supplied by the Ministry of Health and should be used only in emergency situations and in a rational and safe. The insecticide reaches the adult mosquito, the only way to be effective. The action of the product is only effective when the insecticide is suspended in the air and only kills adult mosquitoes. The insecticide does not kill the larvae of Aedes aegypti, which are water tanks, pots, buckets, tires, slabs. With the vent at a rate of 6 km / h, the product lasts from 40 minutes to one hour and half.

The increase of the fleet will cost R $ 1,093,000.00 Budget Monitoring Actions and Priority Projects (MAPP) state.

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