Several dengue awareness activities were held and walks were observed around the city on Sunday to sensitise the citizens about the dengue fever epidemic and precautions against it. District government and elected officials, participating in the campaigns, stressed the need for citizens’ cooperation to make the drive successful.
An anti dengue workshop was organised by the city government at Town Hall. Citizens were urged to play their role in the fight against dengue.
Cleanliness operations were held at all Lahore Development Authority offices and at the University of Engineering and Technology and Punjab University campuses. Buildings were fumigated and sprayed with insecticide.
Several MNAs and MPAs joined the awareness walks in their constituencies. Government offices, including the Civil Secretariat, remained open on Sunday for the purpose.
Chief Secretary Nasir Mahmood Khosa visited several offices to monitor steps taken with regard to the campaign.
DCO stresses citizens’ cooperation
Addressing a workshop at Town Hall, District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal said that the citizens bore a responsibility to participate wholly in the campaign to eliminate dengue larvae.
He said elimination of dengue mosquito had become the district government’s priority. He said officials concerned had been directed to conduct surveillance of 3,251 junkyards, 1,199 basements and 1,552 under construction sites in the city over the next week.
The DCO said that fogging and spraying of areas with potential mosquito breeding sites was going on.
He reiterated the importance of citizens’ cooperation in the campaign saying that they (citizens) should ensure that there was no stagnant water in their houses, streets and colonies. He advised them to cover water tanks and containers. He said that the district administration had been working on a dengue plan since March. He said the performance of most of the workers in the campaign was commendable.
LDA conducts cleanliness operation
A cleanliness operation was carried out at all LDA offices on the directions of LDA Director General Ahad Khan Cheema. A training seminar titled Causes and Prevention of Dengue Fever was arranged at the Community Centre in Muslim Town.
Additional Director Generals Mariam Kayani and Muhammad Usman, Chief Engineer Asrar Saeed, Water and Sanitation Agency Managing Director Mian Abdullah, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency Chief Engineer Saeed Akhtar and Senior Entomologist Saeedur Rehman from the office of the EDO (health) attended the training.
Addressing the seminar, Rehman said that the cleaning of potential dengue mosquito breeding sites was the most successful mechanism for combating the challenge. He said fogging and insecticide sprays killed many useful insects.
“Stagnant water of all types, except sewer, provides favourable conditions for the reproduction of mosquito. Therefore water in all containers should be dried to control the spread of dengue,” he said.
He urged the people to keep their houses as well as the streets clean.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2012.
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good thing to do at the rite moment.. cleanliness is very important and it should b taught to our people according to islamic belief that " sifai ( cleanliness ) nisf imaaan hai" in this way they will learn faster and plss spread this words as much as you can soo there will be a discipline i their lives... and pls pls pls tell them not to have such a displine go away even after dengue mosquitos are gone :)
Go aorund any temple, there are piles of filth which hindus don't see. Hindus are individulists. They will keep their house clean and thow the waste in the street.
Islam teaches collective egalitarism and enforces rules applicable to all collectively, including for hygjiene. Hindu sesek individual nirvana .(Eko prajayate jantu rekmev praliyate, ekonumunkte sukrat rekmev cha duskrutam).
Philosophical content in Islam is very poor, But Quran has an excellent civil code for collective living,.. though for living in 7th century arabian desert. If muslims forget the contextual admonitions fit for that time and retain fundamentals of Quran (No one between God and man, You have to think on your own before following any rules- 2/256), like they did in 13th century in M.East, islam can be a beacon for hindus in India.
I'm not for any conversion as I'm a hindu atheist.
Thank you C.M. Mian Sahib and Punjab government. You are doing a great service. Best wishes.
@claude: What is civic sense of Islam and what relevance does it have here? You want the mosquitoes to convert or what? Or us the Hindu Indians. Pray do enlighten me, man/woman from the land of the pure?
Civic sense of islam needs to be taught to Indian school children and citizenery. There are no public awareness or movement in Indian cities despite the EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS DENGUE HAS REACHED .On a business trip last month to Bangalore, I caught Dengue. After a long and expensive hospitalisation, I'm still too weak to go back to work. I wonder how many man days are lost and how many like me will refrain from going back to India as there is not only no immunity from dengue but it becomes far more violent if caught again.
It must be easier to protect oneself from visible jihadis in Pakistan than from invisible dengue mosquitoes. Pakistan, here I come from business..
good job by the Punjab government.