JIGGERS.

KNA. THIKA                   3^rd Sept                                by Wangai. 

Thika East District Public Health Officer Lucy Thiga today led Community Health Workers in a major operation to treat over 200 children from jigger infestation in Ndula village in Kilimabogo town.

In a campaign dubbed operation jiggers out Thiga and her co-workers managed to fumigate 170 houses from cockroaches, jiggers’ bedbugs and other domestic pests.

She told KNA that the health workers also embarked on a door to door training on basic hygiene measures adding that 98% of the villages were casual workers with a very meager source of income.

Area residents pleaded with the health workers to provide them with chemicals to deal with what they termed as rat’s invasion saying that rats have invaded the village and were consuming their hard earned food. The complained that they were going through a very hard time to keep their surroundings clean as the area is currently experiencing an acute shortage of water.

Mwangi told the residents that the government was committed to eliminating domestic pests in all the villages adding that there were enough chemicals to deal with the menace.

She however called on the villagers to try and maintain basic cleanliness to keep the pests away.

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