THE public is being urged to go on an all out effort to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito from in and around their premises.

Senior medical officer Dr. Ronald Knight said there were far too many deaths from dengue fever and the disease remained a major concern.

"Our dengue prevention and control programme cannot go anywhere without the co-operation of everyone," he said during the launch of a video on local gullies.

He said that the Ministry of Health could only manage at the micro level but at the bigger level, the dengue prevention and control programme was the responsibility of all Barbadians.

Area co-ordinator for the Maurice Byer Polyclinic, Curtis Thompson, said that in the last 18 months ten gullies had been cleared of illegal dumping, costing $158 964.65 and there was still one other gully which was yet to be worked on.

The Braggs Hill and Kellman gullies are so polluted and so deep that it would be very expensive to clean them using conventional methods. so the use of prison labour is being proposed to get the job done.