Director of Vector Control Services (VCS) Dr. Reyaud Rahman, has defended his department’s res-ponse to the Chikungunya scourge.
GINA said that he was responding on Monday to criticisms in that day’s Stabroek News editorial over the government’s response to the mosquito-borne virus which has seen thousands of suspected cases in various parts of the country.
Dr. Rahman denied that the Ministry of Health was late in responding and that the public information campaign was