Singapore To Make Tangerang Bird Flu Control Pilot Project
TANGERANG (Banten), Aug 22 (Bernama) -- The Singapore government intends to make Tangerang city, just outside Jakarta's western outskirts, a pilot project for bird flu control, a local husbandry official said.
"If the bird flu control project in Tangerang is successful, it will serve as a yardstick for other areas in Indonesia to control the spread of the H5NI virus," Charun Sopandi, head of the husbandry division at Tangerang's municipal agriculture and husbandry office, said here Tuesday.
The city was chosen as the location of the pilot project due to its seriousness in handling the spread of the H5NI virus and the relatively high number of bird flu cases that had happened there, Indonesia's Antara news agency quoted him as saying.
To carry out the project, the Singapore government had drawn up a bird flu control system under which two volunteers would be stationed at each village to get first-hand information on suspected bird flu sufferers, he said.
The volunteers would later inform the city administration and the central government of suspected bird flu sufferers for quick treatment, he said.
He said the neighboring country had also provided the city administration with 208 motorcycles, 13 disinfectant sprayers and two computers equipped with special programs to record bird flu cases, he said.
The sprayers would be distributed among 13 sub districts in the municipality while each village would receive two motorcycles, he said.
TANGERANG (Banten), Aug 22 (Bernama) -- The Singapore government intends to make Tangerang city, just outside Jakarta's western outskirts, a pilot project for bird flu control, a local husbandry official said.
"If the bird flu control project in Tangerang is successful, it will serve as a yardstick for other areas in Indonesia to control the spread of the H5NI virus," Charun Sopandi, head of the husbandry division at Tangerang's municipal agriculture and husbandry office, said here Tuesday.
The city was chosen as the location of the pilot project due to its seriousness in handling the spread of the H5NI virus and the relatively high number of bird flu cases that had happened there, Indonesia's Antara news agency quoted him as saying.
To carry out the project, the Singapore government had drawn up a bird flu control system under which two volunteers would be stationed at each village to get first-hand information on suspected bird flu sufferers, he said.
The volunteers would later inform the city administration and the central government of suspected bird flu sufferers for quick treatment, he said.
He said the neighboring country had also provided the city administration with 208 motorcycles, 13 disinfectant sprayers and two computers equipped with special programs to record bird flu cases, he said.
The sprayers would be distributed among 13 sub districts in the municipality while each village would receive two motorcycles, he said.
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