ISLAMABAD: A team of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has arrived here to assess the on-ground situation for its operations in response to the Pakistan’s request for its support against the health crisis posed by the dengue fever.
The development was the result of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s orders to the Pakistan Mission in Geneva to contact the WHO to apprise them about the damage done by the disease in Pakistan, especially in the province of Punjab.
The concerned departments of WHO are planning to provide Pakistan support in controlling the dengue outbreak and has dispatched a team of WHO experts on emergency basis for a need assessment and to train the doctors & paramedics with regard to treatment and vector control measures. The WHO would also provide anti-dengue supplies and the insecticides sprays and equipments, insecticide treated curtains, treated tarpaulin for use in camps of displaced persons and special mosquito nets. In his meeting with the Pakistan Ambassador in Geneva, the WHO’s Director General, Dr Margaret Chan informed that the organisation was already tracking the spread of dengue fever in Pakistan.