GuySuCo’s Port Mourant Training School has been temporarily closed after a dengue outbreak which has left at least two students hospitalized.
Chairman of Region Six, David Armogan yesterday said that so far there have been seven cases of the mosquito-borne dengue confirmed at the school. As such the school has been closed to be fumigated. According to Armogan, that process was to have commenced yesterday.
Stabroek News was told that so far there have been 374 cases of dengue for the month of May with the affected communities being Adelphi, East Canje Berbice; Sandvoort, West Canje Berbice; Goed Bananen Land, East Canje Berbice; Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice; Heathburn Village, East Bank Berbice; Sheet Anchor, East Canje Berbice; Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam; Sheet Anchor, East Canje Berbice and Smythfield, New Amsterdam.