Public support key to defeating dengue: minister’

LAHORE:Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that in view of the current situation of dengue, there is a need to work on an emergency basis and dengue could be completely defeated with public support.

He said this while chairing a meeting of the anti-dengue campaign. During the meeting, a detailed review of the dengue situation in Rawalpindi was conducted. MNA and Focal Person for Dengue Tahira Aurangzeb, Commissioner Rawalpindi Hasan Waqar Cheema, Parliamentary Secretary Information and Culture Shazia Rizwan, MPA Malik Iftikhar, Zeib-Nisa, Mohsin Khan and Zia Ullah Shah and other relevant officers also attended the meeting.

Khawaja Salman said the government’s top priority is to control the dengue situation in Rawalpindi. He said Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz was reviewing the dengue situation in Rawalpindi on a daily basis.

Tahira Aurangzeb said that on the instructions of Punjab CM, public representatives were conducting field visits with the teams of the Health Department to assess the dengue situation. It was told in the briefing that 1,996 dengue patients have been reported in Rawalpindi this year. Currently 281 patients are under treatment in Rawalpindi hospitals while 1,716 dengue patients have recovered.