Special Assistant to the Punjab chief minister on Health Salman Rafique on Tuesday organised a one-day training workshop for health officials on dengue. He directed the Health Department to pay special attention to vector surveillance and larviciding in order to timely check the breeding of the dengue mosquito. The participants of the workshop were apprised of dengue symptoms and case management. Training was also imparted to data entry operators regarding dengue surveillance, vector surveillance and the method of data entry.
Participants consisted of the executive district officers of the Ministry of Health, district focal person on dengue, data entry operators and computer operators in the district dengue control cell of 11 districts of the province.