IT is not the Ministry of Health's responsibility alone to stop mosquitoes from spreading dengue fever, says president of the National Association of Public Health Inspectors Mohan Bholasingh.

Bholasingh said yesterday all citizens should help in the disease's prevention.

Last Wednesday parents protested outside the St Thomas Roman Catholic School in Mayaro, calling on the Health Ministry to spray and sanitise the school.

Most parents except those of Fifth Standard pupils kept their children away from school on Thursday and yesterday.

One parent said she will go to the school on Monday to see if it was "acceptable enough" for her children to continue classes and then she will send them back out on Tuesday.

Bholasingh said since October last year, there were four reports of dengue cases including one teacher.

A press release issued from the Health Ministry on Thursday confirmed that breeding ground for the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the carrier of the disease, was found on the school's compound.

The school was expected to be sprayed yesterday to get rid of the adult mosquitoes.

Bholasingh said all eggs and larvae found in an open barrel that was collecting water were already destroyed.