Dengue Drive: DCO reviews preparations

LAHORE: District Coordination Officer Rizwan Mehboob on Tuesday said all officers and city government employees should perform their duties passionately and honestly to make the anti-dengue campaign successful.

No negligence on the part of any official would be tolerated in this regard and strict action would be taken against them, he said while chairing a meeting regarding the anti-dengue campaign at the Town Hall.

Assistant commissioners, Health EDO Inamul Haq, deputy district officers, the fisheries district officer and the health district officer attended the meeting.

The health EDO said all officers should pay special attention to eliminating dengue fever and teams should conduct door-to-door surveillance. He said he would meet with the railways managing director to discuss the sanitation conditions of 192 acres of the Railway Godown’s land.

He said they would look for dengue larvae there.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 10^th, 2013.