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Health team visits ‘dengue-hit’ areas in Mansehra

MANSEHRA: A team of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dengue Control Programme (DCP) reached here after a large number of suspected dengue patients were brought to hospitals in the district in the last couple of days.“A team of DCP has reached Mansehra from Peshawar. The visited the areas from where most of the

By our correspondents
September 03, 2015
MANSEHRA: A team of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dengue Control Programme (DCP) reached here after a large number of suspected dengue patients were brought to hospitals in the district in the last couple of days.
“A team of DCP has reached Mansehra from Peshawar. The visited the areas from where most of the patients were brought to hospitals,” Dr Sardar Bashir, district health officer, told reporters on Wednesday.
A team of DCP led by Dr Bilal also visited the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital and met dengue patients being kept in Isolation Wards.
The team also met Dr Naeem Awan, Medical Superintendent of King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, and discussed the treatment being provided to dengue patients at the hospital.
Dr Bashir said that though a large number of patients were being brought to hospitals across the district with the symptoms of dengue, the situation was under control.
He said blood samples of 68 suspected patients of dengue had been sent to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad.
He said though precautionary steps were being taken to curb outbreak of dengue in the district, which had been divided into 23 zones, where health staff would carry out fumigation and anti-dengue spray with the support of local government representatives and union council secretaries.