Dengue prevention: CM’s team happy with jail conditions

LAHORE: The Chief Minister’s Special Surveillance Team visited jails in the city on Sunday and declared itself satisfied at the measures taken to protect prisoners from dengue. Officials told APP that team leader Prof Waseem Akram of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, accompanied by Punjab Prisons IG Kokab Nadeem Warraich and Lahore Range DIG Mirza Shahid Saleem Baig visited the Kotlakhpat Central Jail and Camp Jail to examine the preventive measures taken by the Prisons Department. The team checked the kitchens, water dispensers, sewerage lines, barracks, pots, toilets, fountains, trees, buckets, flower pots, garbage areas and lawns and found no mosquito breeding sites. The prisoners had been given mosquito repellent and bed nets in both jails’ hospitals. Both jails are overcrowded  3,606 inmates take up space meant for 1,406 prisoners in Kot Lakhpat, while 3,552 are crammed into space meant for 1,050 inmates in Camp Jail. The jails are being sprayed daily with insecticide.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 10^th, 2011.