Dengue fever: 3,500 bottles of medicine reach city

LAHORE:

As many as 3,500 bottles of dextrone-40, used in treatment of dengue fever, imported from India reached the city on Wednesday.

Speaking to the media at King Edward Medical University (KEMU), Health Department director general Dr Muhammad Aslam Chaudhary said the bottles would be distributed among the teaching hospitals.

KEMU Vice Chancellor Prof Asad Aslam Khan said with the donation of two blood test machines by a private bank the number of such machines at Mayo Hospital had risen to six.

Elsewhere, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced at a meeting that the government was starting a dedicated ambulance service for shifting dengue patients from hospitals with overcrowded wards to those with vacant beds.

Meanwhile, eight more people died of dengue fever on Wednesday.

Of these, six were in Lahore.

As many as 342 people were diagnosed with the disease in the province and 280 of these were in Lahore.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 6^th, 2011.