Anti-dengue depts ordered to maintain SOPs

LAHORE

Provincial Minister for Labour & Human Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has directed the heads of all the concerned departments of anti-dengue campaign that the shortage of human resource should be met for controlling dengue according to the SOPs during the off-season in Rawalpindi. 

He said strict action should be taken against dengue staff remaining absent from duty besides training, indoor and outdoor surveillance, monitoring of field staff, recruitment of sanitary patrol, setting equipment and machinery in working order, unavailability of medicines and chemicals should also be ensured so that all the arrangements with regard to anti-dengue should be completed in Rawalpindi before the start of dengue season.

He issued these instructions while presiding over a weekly dengue control review meeting at the Commissioner Office Rawalpindi. Acting Commissioner Rawalpindi Sajid Zafar Dal, Raja Hanif Advocate MPA, Raja Attiq Sarwar, ADCG Imran Qureshi, Administrator Potohar Town Arif Rahim, Assistant Commissioner Tasneem Ali Khan, Dr. Sataish and heads of concerned departments attended the meeting.

Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said all the concerned departments should evolve an anti-dengue plan and make their performance coordinated so that this disease could be eradicated timely. He said performance of dengue control teams and surveillance staff should be monitored at union council level and anti-dengue activities should be reviewed daily by supervisory staff. The provincial minister said besides residential areas, low-lying places at trade centres, under construction buildings, junkyards, graveyards and parks should be filed so that water could not accumulate. Acting Commissioner Rawalpindi Sajid Zafar Dal told the meeting that guiding principles have been evolved keeping in view the previous results of the campaign and detailed discussion about the future strategy for controlling dengue in Rawalpindi for which instructions have been issued.