Upon Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif’s directives, a 110-member delegation, comprising entomologists, experts, doctors, nurses and officials from concerned departments who rendered services to control the dengue epidemic and treated patients in hospitals, is leaving for Thailand and Sri Lanka today to receive training on treatment and eradication of dengue. Environment Secretary Saleem Sajjad Hotiyana is leading the delegation.
The delegating would receive training from master trainers and upon return they would impart training on treatment and eradication of dengue to others. This is part of the CM’s long-term plan for the eradication of dengue, and members of the delegation were selected on merit. Elected representatives, government officers of various departments, doctors and family physicians of private sector were also included in the delegation. Moreover, district government officials of the districts affected by dengue, Institute of Blood Transfusion, Agriculture University Faisalabad, local government and community development, Lahore Development Authority, Pakistan Horticulture Authority, finance, environment and fisheries departments, officials and experts of Institute of Public Health, besides Lady Health Supervisors, were also included in the delegation.
