NEA award 2 yr $10 million contract to advertising firm to fight dengue.

[hkh]

Think the NEA enforcement officers are the ones that need to go for education tours to enlighten them on dealing with home owners........

[streetsmart73]

Originally Posted by hkh

Think the NEA enforcement officers are the ones that need to go for education tours to enlighten them on dealing with home owners........

bro, me support it, thumbs up. yes, there are always some bad apples in the same "herd"

joe's mum is definitely an exceptional

[foxwagon]

May be some of them still got the old mentality of Govt Staff Zheng Hu Lang go around doing stand by inspections

[hkh]

Originally Posted by foxwagon

May be some of them still got the old mentality of Govt Staff Zheng Hu Lang go around doing stand by inspections

Then they better change their mindset.......intimidation doesn't work here anymore.......

[Joecool]

Originally Posted by richardg

Thanks for the info, what is "educational tour"?
Experience with NEA enforcement "officers" have not been good circa 2011.
Also got complain from residents about them.

The one who came to my house was not polite and also threatening.
Come to my house and threaten me??? Invited him out and never let them in again. Want to come in go get the court order.

Present fine system is confrontative and put residents in a dilemma.
Paying $200 is not something everyone can do without some pain.

Hopefully the new system works better, it needs more publicity.

Thanks.

The education tour includes life cycle of the mozzi, ways to prevent mozzi breeding at home.

Originally Posted by streetsmart73

bro, me support it, thumbs up. yes, there are always some bad apples in the same "herd"

joe's mum is definitely an exceptional

TY for the kind comment.

Originally Posted by hkh

Think the NEA enforcement officers are the ones that need to go for education tours to enlighten them on dealing with home owners........

If you all look at the staff of the NEA inspection officers, a huge % of them are elderlys. There is a possibility that there still carry on that old mindset.

anyways just to get a consensus, are all of you staying in the same area? Cos the NEA teams are grouped into regions and have different HQ for each region. If all the unhappiness is happening around 1 area, then maybe can do a collective feedback to NEA.

[globalcookie]

Singapore reports highest number of dengue cases in a week for 2015

Wed, Jan 06 2016 0 My Playlist


SINGAPORE: A total of 455 dengue cases were reported in the week ending Jan 2, 86 more than the week before, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said in an update on its website. This is the highest number of cases in a week recorded in 2015.

NEA reiterated that the proportion of dengue cases due to the DENV-2 serotype has increased in the Republic and now accounts for more than half of all dengue cases in Singapore. The DENV-1 serotype had accounted for most of the dengue cases since March 2013 and NEA said this change in the main circulating dengue virus may be an early indicator of a future dengue outbreak. When there is a prevalent serotype of dengue in the population, the community will build up a "herd immunity" to the serotype. When the main circulating dengue serotype changes, there will hence be less community immunity against the new serotype.

NEA is urging members of the public as well as stakeholders to take immediate action to stem the further increase in cases. "We are seeing an increase in the Aedes mosquito population and are also experiencing slightly warmer than usual year-end weather due to the El Nino phenomenon," NEA said. The warmer conditions support faster breeding and maturation cycles for mosquitoes and shortens incubation periods for the dengue virus, the agency added.

NEA said source eradication of mosquito breeding habitats remains key to preventing mosquito breeding and encouraged stakeholders to play their part by checking their premises daily for these habitats and removing them. Residents with plants in vases should also change the water and scrub the inside of the vases every alternate day.

"Those infected with dengue should also apply repellent as regularly as possible to prevent mosquitoes from biting and picking up the virus from them and those showing symptoms of dengue should see their GPs early to be diagnosed," NEA added.

- CNA/

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$10mil spent but dengue cases still so high.... Money well spent?

[hkh]

Originally Posted by globalcookie

$10mil spent but dengue cases still so high.... Money well spent?

Ask Vivian Bala.......

[streetsmart73]

Originally Posted by hkh

Ask Vivian Bala.......

God world number one boh

[Auratus]

Think may be $10 mil not good enough?

[loveikan]

Question will be the project exceeded budget by how much and still very well spent.