Parliamentary Health Secretary Khwaja Imran Nazir PHOTO: facebook.com/OFFICIAL.KhawajaImran
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Health Khawaja Imran Nazir has said the anti-dengue staff performing duties for the last two years would be regularised on their positions.
He has directed the department to prepare working papers for this purpose. He said this while talking to a delegation of dengue staff of Punjab Dengue Control Programme in his office on Friday. Lahore Health CEO Dr Muhammad Saeed Ghuman and other concerned officers were also present in the meeting.
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The minister lauded the efforts of dengue staff in controlling the virus. He said tireless efforts of dengue staff and vigorous indoor and outdoor dengue surveillance have enabled the health department to control dengue.
“In 2011, we had sought technical assistance from Sri Lankan experts to overcome the dengue epidemic and now by the grace of Allah, our entomologists and public health experts have become so experienced that the Sri Lankan are asking us for help to control dengue in their country,” he said. Imram assured the delegation that problems of anit-dengue staff would be resolved on priority basis and they would soon hear good news in this regard.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 24th, 2017.
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