Click to play videoNew Delhi: “I don’t like dengue,” says Dakshita Gupta, a class 2 student of Queen Mary’s School.
Dakshita may be slightly hazy on the details about dengue but she knows enough about the viral fever as to understand why she needs to wear full-sleeved shirt and knee-length socks to school.
“Someone had dengue in my school that is why I am wearing a full-sleeved shirt,” says Dakshita.
School children like Dakshita could feel hot wearing full-sleeved shirts and knee-length socks but they are only doing that because the school authorities have advised them to do.
Most of the schools in Delhi are following the government advisory that children come fully covered to school to avoid being bitten by the aedes mosquito.
However, that is not all, private schools have also asked the children to apply mosquito repellent cream and stay away from stagnant water especially the water in swimming pools.
And in this war against the mighty mosquito, they are not depending on the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and it's fogging machines.
“They won’t come each time we call them so we have asked the children to apply odomas creams and we spray kerosene in the school everyday,” says principal of Queen Marys School, Monica Massey.
In the meanwhile, the story is slightly different in Government schools, as most children know about ‘dengue-bite.’
However, the school administration couldn't care less. The water is still stagnant with happily breeding mosquitoes and the garbage hasn’t been removed since a week.
They might have asked the children to wear full-sleeved shirts but they couldn’t care less even if the children don’t wear them.
And the macchar mar machines?
The schools are yet to have them.
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