Chief Environmental Health Officer, Ferdinia Carbon report decrease in Hurricane shelters after Maria

​Chief Environmental Health Officer, Ferdinia Carbon reported at a press conference last week, that the numbers of shelters and persons living in shelters has decreased rapidly, since the passage of hurricane Maria.
 
Carbon stated that because persons are returning to their homes, they are seeing less residents at the shelters.
 
She informed that the environmental health division is continuing to monitor the shelters on the island, saying “As you know, when persons are in a crowded area, we also get the transmission of diseases. So we have to continue monitoring and surveillance of the shelters, to ensure that they have potable water, and means of proper sanitation and waste management”.
 
She further stated there has been no increase in mosquito-borne diseases after hurricane Maria, despite increases in mosquitos. She called on the public to get rid of mosquito breeding sites.
 
She said “although we are storing much more water around our homes, we want persons to remember that they have to cover those drums, and turn over those appliances that can contain water, which can go on to breed mosquitos”.