islamabad

December 23, 2015

Health department plans strategy to avoid dengue fever outbreak next year

Rawalpindi The district health department has claimed to have finalised a comprehensive strategy to avoid hatching of eggs of mosquito ‘aedes aegypti’, the vector that causes dengue fever, in the district with a hope to achieve dengue-free status in 2016. The health department has finalised a plan that would be implemented for at least one-and-a-half months from January 1, 2016 under which the teams of district health department would work in the field for eliminating eggs of ‘aedes...