Due to an increase in diseases transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes, changes in ordinance are offered
In 2023, registered cases of vector-transmitted infections in the country were 295, including 10 malaria cases. Since the beginning of 2024, the number of reported patients has been 419, with a significant growth in Lyme borreliosis and West Nile fever, respectively 2 and 31 times. This determines the importance of services for disinfection, disinsection and deratization to protect the health and safety of people who should be effective and timely.
The draft legislative act aims to refine the texts relating to the activities of disinfection, disinsection and deratizations. This will help to carry out timely treatment in the event of pests and reduce their numbers and related possibilities for infecting people, with a view to increasing patients with transmissible infections and their public importance, the reasons are said.
This year spraying against ticks, mosquitoes and rodents in Sofia will start earlier
In view of the completeness of the regulatory framework and of the disinsection and deratization activities, additional texts are scheduled, dividing the activities of prophylactic, not allowing the appearance of pests and those that are carried out after monitoring of pests or traces of their presence, the reasons are stated.
The requirement for monitoring, as part of the disinsection and deratization activities, is introduced, through which a regular monitoring of a particular pest, its activity and the dynamics of its number should be carried out periodically and systematically.
Natural and legal persons managing and using the sites falling within the regulation should ensure that the recorded activities (prophylactic and fighter) aimed at reducing pests and possible contact of the citizens with them.
The draft Ordinance refers to the texts related to the activities and requirements for natural and legal persons who carry out disinfection, disinsections and deratizations (DDD). A condition is introduced for the territorial location of the sites in which a manager disinfects, disinsections and deratizations carry out his activities, stating that they should be in no more than three administrative areas. This will guarantee the quality of the manager’s activity and the possibility of actually exercising control and physical presence.
Five hazards that lurk in the summer and are not to be underestimated (not counting ticks)
With respect to persons who can acquire a qualification for the head of the DDD, the texts relating to the vocational field of higher education are changed for greater precision and the elimination of an unjustified restriction. In the education for the acquisition of qualification for the head of the DDD, people with a master’s degree in Medicine in Medicine, with a higher education in the professional field « Veterinary Medicine », « Plant Protection », « Biological Special » are admitted to the Master’s degree, with a degree in the specialty. Public Health. «
Given that the ordinance introduces the requirement for entry into a public database of natural and legal persons who perform DDD activities, a new subparagraph is created, stating that only the inscribed persons can carry out such activities in the sites that fall within the regulation.
The public consultation period is May 19.
