On the directions of Chief Minister Punjab, a door to door dengue surveillance campaign has been launched for complete eradication of dengue larva and to sensitise inhabitants about the precautionary measures against dengue.
During this campaign, special surveillance teams, each comprising an entomologist, officials of health department, City District Government, Lady Health Workers and volunteers, will visit house to house and they will search dengue larva as well as educate the people about the techniques for checking the larva breeding.
The Special Assistant to Chief Minister Kh. Salman Rafique, while inaugurating special dengue surveillance and awareness campaign at Government College for Women Baghbanpura in UC-38, Wahga Town Lahore, said that about 6,000 houses located in UC-38 have been divided into 10 clusters and one team has been constituted for each cluster. This team will be further divided into 3 sub-teams. He added that every team comprising one entomologist, 15 LHWs, 10 volunteers, one supervisor and officials of City District Government. On this occasion Pervez Malik MNA, Wasim Qadir and Raheela Khadim MPAs, Civil Society Activist Shaista Pervez Malik, Secretary Information and Culture Mohyuddin Wani, Secretary Health Punjab Cap. Arif Nadeem, Commissioner Lahore Jawad Rafiq Malik, EDO Health Lahore Dr Inam ul Haq and other senior were also present.
Kh. Salman Rafique said that government and people of Punjab especially Lahorites learnt a lot from the previous spell of dengue which had snatched a number of our beloved from us. He said that the citizens of Lahore had boldly faced that challenge and under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif all the government departments along with the people and the media have succeeded to manage that critical situation. He said that the experts of Sri Lanka and Thailand had also assisted a lot. He further said that today our experts are in a better position with best training and are better equipped and we will InshaAllah defeat the dengue menace. He said that door to door dengue surveillance campaign would be extended to other UCs. He directed the surveillance teams to educate the householders especially female family members regarding precautionary measures in order to control dengue breeding.
The inaugural ceremony was also addressed by Begum Shaista Pervez Malik, EDO Health Dr Inam ul Haq and the College Principal Dr Fozia Iftikhar. Later Kh. Salman Rafique, Pervez Malik, Shaista Pervez Malik, Commissioner Lahore, Jawad Rafiq Malik, EDO Health, Dr Inam ul Haq and In charge CM Research Cell Dr Wasim Akram (entomologist) also visited few houses of the area and briefed the residence about the dengue control arrangements.