Staff Correspondent

The Dhaka City Corporation control room is being swamped with news of crow deaths with officials saying that such deaths are not unusual in this period of the year. DCC officials reaffirmed that crows found dead so far did not bear any sign of avian influenza. The corporation’s control room, set up on Friday, recorded 10 crow deaths Sunday and sent samples to the Central Disease Institute Laboratory for test. ‘We received news of more deaths of crows in different parts including Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital, Central Shahid Minar and Rampura areas,’ an official said Sunday.

Those were buried at a designated place. ‘Crows normally die in this season. Death of one or two crows at a place does not mean that bird flu is there,’ he said. Things could be seen alarming if a good number of crows are found dead at a place, he, however, said. Chief health officer of the corporation Showkat Ali said on Friday that no bird flu virus had been detected in the dead crows, which were found in a Gulshan park and some other places in the city last week.

Poultry traders at different kitchen markets in the city were found using the containers for dumping wastes of fowls, slaughtered for sale. The corporation supplied the covered containers to 50 kitchen markets on Saturday and initiated campaigns to motivate traders to use those for their personal and public health safety.

The central monitoring committee headed by chief veterinary officer of Central Veterinary Hospital Dr Mosaddek Hossain on Sunday held a meeting with poultry traders at Sayedabad as part of the campaigns for raising awareness about bio-security of the kitchen markets. ‘We have held the meeting as part of our job to aware the people and businessmen to take safety measures. We will have more meetings with poultry traders in major kitchen markets in all the 10 zones of DCC,’ said a corporation official.

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