Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed said that fumigation campaign against dengue virus would be carried out with all available resources so that the citizens could be saved from this deadly disease.
He said this while chairing a meeting held to review the anti-dengue campaign being run in different areas of the city. Administrators of all five district municipal corporations, municipal commissioners, health officers, senior director municipal services, focal person for dengue control program Nauman Arshad and other officers attended the meeting.
The city administrator said whatever and how much problems we might have, the citizens could not be left on the mercy of circumstances and the troubles. We just have to focus and work on the single point agenda which is “dengue bhagao-jan bachao” and for this purpose we will have to work very hard to provide shield to the citizens against the lethal virus.
He said the spray campaign will be carried out by KMC and all district municipal corporations jointly and in this connection a comprehensive strategy had been worked out. Spray campaign was performed in different areas of the city under this program.
Senior Director Municipal Services Dr Shaukat Zaman gave a detailed briefing on the present fumigation campaign in the city. He said all the commercial areas, offices, buildings and shopping malls would be covered during the campaign to eliminate the mosquitoes. The special ward in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for dengue fever treatment had also been made functional with the arrangements for test of dengue virus in other hospitals.