Dengue awareness stressed

LAHORE
Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital (PGMI/LGH) Principal Prof Dr Anjum Habib Vohra has stressed the medical professionals to convert the dengue awareness message into a massive campaign so as to wipe out this menace from our country once for all.
According to a press release issued on Saturday, the principal, while presiding over a meeting held in connection with the dengue awareness campaign, appealed to the masses to always contact authentic doctors and hospitals and not quakes in case of dengue fever or other medical complications.
The meeting was attended Prof. Agha Shabir Ali, Prof. Farah Shafi, MS Dr. M. Saeed Sohbin, Deputy Chief Nursing Superintendent Farhat Mehboob and all the senior doctors of the hospital.
The principal said that on the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, all the treatment and diagnostic facilities about dengue had been made available 24 hours at the government hospitals. He said the dengue treatment facilities had been ensured at the dengue countres established at the Emergency Ward round the clock while doctors, nurses, and other staff would also remain present from 8:00am to 8:00pm at the outdoor ward.
The senior doctors briefed the principal about the steps taken in their departments concerned against dengue.
Prof. Vohra told the meeting that as prevention measures, spray and fogging were being carried out on daily basis in the hospital so as to save doctors, nurses, and attendants along with patients from dengue virus. He stressed the nursing superintendent to maintain patient’s chart regularly as it helped to monitor the recovery and treatment process of a patient. He also made it clear that cleanliness in the hospital could not be compromised at any cost because it was the base of the struggle against dengue.