Dengue virus control: Jhagra lauds Punjab’s goodwill gesture

Directs authorities concerned to take effective precautionary measures to get rid of the problem

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra appreciated the Punjab government for sending health professionals and mobile health units for helping control the spread of dengue virus and welcomed the goodwill gesture.

Punjab Minister for Health Khawaja Imran Nazir, who is heading the medical teams, called on the K-P governor at the Governor House on Sunday.



Adviser to the Prime Minister Ameer Muqam, Senator Ghulam Ali, Additional Chief Secretary, Fata, Fida Muhammad Wazir, Principal Secretary to Governor, Sikandar Qayyum and Director Health, FATA, Jawad Khan also attended the meeting.

The medical units were despatched on the orders of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

These teams will work in line with policies of the provincial government in Peshawar, besides visiting areas hit by the dengue virus.



Meanwhile, the K-P governor directed the authorities concerned to take effective precautionary measures to get rid of this problem in Peshawar and adjacent tribal areas and the entire Fata, making it a dengue-free region.

He also called for making proper medicines readily available on emergency basis.



Expressing his gratitude to the Punjab chief minister, and his government, the governor said that the K-P government and its people appreciated this highly valuable gesture of goodwill.

He also expressed the hope that joint efforts would help overcome the problem of dengue virus.