Institute of Public Health: Planning for future outbreaks?
Sri Lankan experts had helped the government to formulate a standard protocol for the treatment of dengue patients.
LAHORE:
The Institute of Public Health is being upgraded so it is better able to monitor the dengue virus in future years and help the government restrict the outbreak of the seasonal disease, Special Health Secretary Dawood Muhammad Khan told reporters at King Edward Medical University on Monday.
Khan said that the Sri Lankan experts had helped the government evolve a strategy to check the breeding of mosquitoes and formulate a standard protocol for the treatment of dengue patients. He said that the Sri Lankan government and its high commissioner had pledged to send more experts to Pakistan if needed.
He said that there was no shortage of cell separator machines or platelet kits at public hospitals. He said that 50 cell separator machines were being imported and would soon reach Lahore. Fogging machines and spraying pumps have been provided to each union council, he added. Khan said that daily-wage employees hired for spraying insecticide were paid Rs500 per day. He said that a request to purchase more ventilators had been sent to the chief minister.
The University of Health Sciences will host a workshop on dengue treatment today.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2011.
The Institute of Public Health is being upgraded so it is better able to monitor the dengue virus in future years and help the government restrict the outbreak of the seasonal disease, Special Health Secretary Dawood Muhammad Khan told reporters at King Edward Medical University on Monday.
Khan said that the Sri Lankan experts had helped the government evolve a strategy to check the breeding of mosquitoes and formulate a standard protocol for the treatment of dengue patients. He said that the Sri Lankan government and its high commissioner had pledged to send more experts to Pakistan if needed.
He said that there was no shortage of cell separator machines or platelet kits at public hospitals. He said that 50 cell separator machines were being imported and would soon reach Lahore. Fogging machines and spraying pumps have been provided to each union council, he added. Khan said that daily-wage employees hired for spraying insecticide were paid Rs500 per day. He said that a request to purchase more ventilators had been sent to the chief minister.
The University of Health Sciences will host a workshop on dengue treatment today.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2011.