Dengue fever on the rise in Hazara division

Health department starts fumigation


Our Correspondent August 24, 2022
In this file photo, a worker of the Rawalpindi District Health Authority carries out anti-dengue spray at the Rawalpindi Press Club. Photo: Agha Mahroz/EXPRESS

HARIPUR/ ABBOTABAD:

Dengue fever has hit back all over Hazara division where dozens of people were admitted to various hospitals in the region.

After reporting of dengue virus case in Khalabat Chhohar Colony Sector No. 2 district Haripur, District Health Officer (DHO) Haripur Dr Manoor Khan Afridi ordered spray in the Khalabat township.

The spray campaign for the prevention of dengue virus was completed in Chhohar Colony.

The health department has also started fumigation in several areas of Haripur including GT road, Circular road and inside the city areas. The department also issued directives for precautionary measures against dengue fever.

The situation of dengue fever in district Mansehra is alarming as more than 20 patients including five women of the same village Phagla have been caught by the virus and admitted to King Abdullah Hospital Mansehra. The dengue fever patients have the facility of Sehat Insaf Card for treatment.

During the last few years district Mansehra is the worst hit by dengue fever where hundreds of patients had been registered from almost every union council. People have complained that in the affected areas of Mansehra district administration and health department have sprayed only once or twice despite the outbreak of the disease.

They claimed that during the incubation period of the larva through August health department did nothing for the eradication and now Dengue is resurging.

In Abbottabad, the dengue fever cases have mostly been registered from Sherwan circle while 4-5 cases of Tehsil Havelian have been reported.

Meanwhile Chairman Board of Directors Water and Sanitation Services Company Abbottabad (WSSCA) Major Zulfiqar Ahmed visited Union Council Urban City, Kayhal, Nawan Shahr and dumping ground.

During the visit, he inspected the cleanliness arrangements at Fawara Chowk, Kunj Road, Link Road, Murree Road, Jharian Road and Awami Road.

Chairman WSSCA gave instructions to cover open manholes, remove garbage from drains and dispose of garbage in time. He met the residents of the area and also gave instructions for redressal of their grievances. The hawkers and vegetable vendors in Band Kho Chowk were advised not to throw garbage in drains and to cooperate with WSSCA staff.

Solid Waste Management Deputy Manager Engineer Javed Abbasi briefed Major (R) Zulfiqar Ahmed regarding the planning of disposal of garbage in a scientific manner in a part of the dumping ground. Umar Asghar Khan Foundation Coordinator Mumtaz Tanoli and Chief Sanitary Inspector Muhammad Saqib were also present.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2022.

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