Health official directs devising dengue combat strategy

Rawalpindi: Deputy District Officer Health Dr Amir Sheikh Deputy Thursday directed officials of Agricultural, PHA, Education and Health departments to devise a strategy to combat dengue, and evolve a plan that it could not emerge with change of weather.

Chairing a meeting to review anti-dengue arrangements, he directed that surveillance activities or tracing of larva and its eradication be expedited besides focusing on hotspots from where dengue patients were reported last year.

Meanwhile Micro planning survey for Dengue control had been completed in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (MCR) limits under which 125,000 houses had been registered, he said. The DDO said that dengue control drive was being carried out on scientific basis and teams were visiting houses to detect the occurrence of larvae breeding. He said a comprehensive strategy had been evolved for controlling dengue spread.