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480 workers recruited on daily wage for 45 days

RawalpindiThe district health department says that it has placed as many as 480 workers in the field for dengue fever surveillance who have been appointed on daily wage basis for 45 days, while the recruitment process for 1,067 posts of workers on contractual basis would be completed within a week.Workers

By Muhammad Qasim
May 07, 2015
Rawalpindi
The district health department says that it has placed as many as 480 workers in the field for dengue fever surveillance who have been appointed on daily wage basis for 45 days, while the recruitment process for 1,067 posts of workers on contractual basis would be completed within a week.
Workers on daily wage basis were appointed to carry out activities for identification and elimination of larvae of ‘aedes aegypti’, the vector that causes dengue fever, in areas falling under jurisdiction of cantonment boards.
It was planned to induct workers on daily wages to work in the field till induction and training of 1,067 workers sanctioned by the Punjab government for carrying out activities under anti-polio drives and to avoid dengue fever outbreak in the district.
The appointment orders of 480 workers on daily wage basis have been issued by the health department while the health department would start interviewing candidates applied for the sanctioned posts on contractual basis from tomorrow (Thursday), said Medical Superintendent at District Headquarters Hospital Dr. Nasir Mehmood who has additional charge of the seat of Executive District Officer (Health) Rawalpindi.
He added the health department would issue appointment letters to successful candidates immediately after interviews which would be conducted from Thursday to Saturday.
It is important that the sanctioned staff for anti-polio drives and dengue fever surveillance is being inducted on contractual basis that would carry out activities in the field on regular basis for prevention of dengue fever and would take part in scheduled anti-polio drives under National Immunisation Day, Sub-National Immunisation Day and Short-Interval Additional Dose throughout the year.
To a query, Dr. Nasir claimed that the induction process of the sanctioned staff and their training for working in the field for dengue fever surveillance would be completed within a week. We hope that the sanctioned staff would be in the field to perform their duties within a week, he said.
It is important that the population in the district faced severe outbreaks of dengue fever in last two years, 2013 and 2014 and nearly one-half of the total confirmed cases of the infection in the Punjab province were from Rawalpindi. In last two years, the allied hospitals in town had to admit hundreds of patients every week for treatment of dengue fever from August to November as the concerned government authorities could not succeed in controlling the spikes.
When asked, Dr. Nasir said the health department would place workers being inducted in the field as soon as possible to avoid dengue fever outbreak this year.