Seybay helps to keep mosquitoes at bay |28 February 2006

The hand-held, battery-operated pieces of equipment cost the company R15,000 and will be distributed to health centres, hospital wards and community centres including homes for the elderly, for use by individuals to destroy mosquitoes.

It was the company’s director, Michael D’Offay, who presented the tennis racket-like swatters to the director general for community health, Dr Jude Gedeon, at Victoria Hospital recently.

Mr D’Offay said he made the gesture because of the attachment his family has to Victoria Hospital, where a ward is named after his grandfather, Dr Tony D’Offay.

“I am also a physiotherapist by training and I wonder who, if not members of the community like us, should look after health workers,” he said.

Receiving the swatters, Dr Gedeon said that the equipment will be another weapon to fight mosquitoes, which were responsible for the spread of the viral disease, chikungunya, which affected many people here in January.

Through the site SeyBay.com, the donor company sells land, property, cars, boats, jewels, animals, jobs, business, books, and offers houses for rent, while helping to reunite old and new friends.

“This internet site is specially designed for modems in the Seychelles and will allow you a quick access to each page.

“The use of the site is free of charge and SeyBay.com would like to keep it like that in the future,” Mr D’Offay said.