The Tribune

REV C B Moss, President of the Bain and Grants Town Advancement Association (BGTAA), is calling on the Government to greatly increase financial, human and information resources in the fight against the Zika virus.

“The threat to individual and national health, as well as the threat to the tourism industry, is too severe for the low key, almost casual response by the authorities,” Rev Moss told a commuity meeting this week.

Before the confirmation of the Zika virus in New Providence, Rev Moss had established the Bain and Grants Town Anti-Zika Task Force and an intensive street-by-street campaign was launched in the community to address the danger.

On Monday, a community town meeting was held at Mt Olive Baptist Church, at which representatives from the Department of Public Health, other health officials as well as the College of the Bahamas participated.

Rev Moss thanked the officials for their involvement but insisted that the government must mobilise stakeholders at the national and community level to wage this “war”.

This month, eight cases of Zika have been confirmed in New Providence, and there are fears a great many more will occur. The time has come to “reduce the talk and increase the action”, Rev Moss said in a statement.