“If the larva is found in the fire fighting equipments, buckets hanging over there or in the stagnant water, the owners should be fined,” says Bosal. PHOTO: FILE
To accelerate the ongoing dengue surveillance campaign, the focus should be on the areas where the dengue larva is identified. Awareness campaigns should to launched to make the public aware about the preventive measures for the fever.
This was stated by Rawalpindi Division Commissioner Imdadullah Bosal while presiding over a meeting held at his office to review the progress of the Dengue Surveillance Campaign.
He directed the District Coordination Officers (DCOs) and Executive District Officers (EDOs) that information counters for the dengue patients and their attendants be set up in every District Headquarters Hospital.
He said banners inscribed with preventive measures to control dengue for the information of public should be placed at main roads in the cities, adding, a complete inspection of junkyards, gas stations and underconstruction buildings be carried out.
“If the larva is found in the fire fighting equipments, buckets hanging over there or in the stagnant water, the owners should be fined,” he said. Lectures about dengue preventive measures in the assemblies of schools for the awareness of the students should also be arranged, he added.
The commissioner directed the DCOs to instruct assistant commissioners (ACs) to supervise the Dengue Campaign in their respective areas and the community should be involved to keep their houses and residential areas clean so that the dengue larva could not be flourished due to unhygienic atmosphere.
The DCOs and EDOs Health briefed the meeting about the dengue surveillance campaign in their respective districts. DCOs Rawalpindi, Chakwal, Attock and Jhelum Saqib Zafar, Ahmed Aziz Tarar, Ch. Muhammad Usman, Mirza Mehmood ul Hasan, EDOs Rawalpindi, Chakwal, Attock and Jhelum Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal, Dr Muhammad Nasir, Dr Musarrat Hussain, DO Health Rawalpindi Dr Khalid Randhawa and AC Ch. Habibullah attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2013.
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