LAHORE – A Punjab Health Department spokesman, while clarifying a news item appearing in a section of press in which it was claimed that pneumonia has converted into an epidemic in Vehari has termed it against the facts. He clarified that during December, 2010, 646 children suffering from different diseases had been brought to the hospital, out of which only 37 were affected from pneumonia.
He further said only two children died due to pneumonia, which is not unusual. He said the impression regarding the pneumonia’s spread in flood affected children is contrary to the facts.
Owing to Health Department’s effective measures, the situation is fully under control and doctors are providing best treatment facilities to the people of the area and special care is being extended to the minors, concluded the spokesman.
‘Only 47 pneumonia cases have shown up’
