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PINAR DEL RIO, March 26 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI /
www.cubanet.org) - The two-month-old sanitation drive in Pinar del Río
province will grind to a halt when the rainy season starts due to a suspension
in the delivery of fuel allocated to it.
The work so far performed will be wasted, according to the provincial
director of community services, Dr. Dionisio Pérez Baños.
Dr. Pérez, who said the city of Pinar del Río was "cleaner",
expressed concern that in spite of what has been accomplished so far, the
optimal level of communal hygiene has not been achieved.
The decision to suspend the fuel quota for sanitation means a return to
draft animals to take trash out of cities and towns and a halt in clean-up
operations in ditches, canals and empty lots, where mosquitoes usually breed.
A story is circulating locally that 6,000 liters of fuel allocated to the
present fumigation campaign against the Aedes aegypti mosquito had been "diverted",
which locals say is a euphemism used by government bureaucrats for theft when
government officials are involved.
"The campaign against the mosquito is more propaganda than real fact,
because after two months there are areas in Pinar del Río whose sanitary
condition is atrocious, and problems such as the regular supply of drinking
water have not gone beyond being unfulfilled promises," said one resident.
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