Allied hospitals receive eight more dengue patients

DC orders increased surveillance, anti-mosquito spray

RAWALPINDI: With increase in heat more and more dengue patients have started coming to hospitals.

Rising temperatures in the first week of May have triggered spawning of larvae of the mosquitoes that cause dengue fever.

So far eight patients have been detected with dengue which has caused alert in the district administration and health officers. Dengue larvae have been found from graveyards, open points, homes, tyre shops and workshops.

Officials of the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation said they need Rs4 million to clear bushes from the 68 graveyards of the city where dengue larvae thrive. The bushes in graveyards, wild plants are safe havens of dengue mosquitoes.

During past one week dengue larvae has been found from Cantt and city’s 70 different points on which taking strict notice Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa has issued directives of continuing the dengue search campaign on daily basis despite the ongoing polio and nutrition drive.



Lady health workers have been strictly directed to check 30 houses per day, surveillance teams have been directed to check the graveyards, empty places, tyre shops, homes, offices on daily basis. In case of dengue larvae is found at a public office cases for the first time will be registered against responsible public officers. Directives to ensue dengue campaign in Rawalpindi-Islamabad surrounding areas; IG Principal Road, Islamabad Expressway, Rawat, Peshawar Morh and within the limits of Islamabad have also been issued.

Verifying the emergency situation in meeting presided by deputy commissioner, health officers told that in Punjab, from Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad eight dengue cases have reached hospitals and in Rawalpindi dozens of patients have come with dengue fever, none of them have been verified with dengue, however in Punjab dengue has lodged attacked.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 12^th, 2019.