Death toll due to dreadful dengue virus in Punjab has climbed to 13 as two more women expired in different hospitals of Lahore on Friday.
According to details, two women including Anita, 32, hailing from Raivaz Garden, and 37-year-old Tanzeela Irfan, belonging to Garden Town, were under treatment at the Services Hospital and Rasheed Hospital, but expired during the treatment raising the death toll to 13 in the province during the ongoing year.
According to the Punjab Health Department sources, dengue virus has been detected in 42 more people who have been shifted to different hospitals of the province.
The reports say that patients under treatment are from Rawalpindi, Lahore, Mandi Bahauddin and Chakwal district.
Health Department spokesman said that since Jan 1, 2013, 1,349 dengue cases have been reported across the province of which 1,255 have been discharged after treatment from various governmental and private hospitals while 94 are still under treatment.
The citizens have expressed grave concerns over the deaths due to dengue fever and its rapid outspread. They also expressed dissatisfaction over the treatment facilities for dengue patients in hospitals and steps taken by the government to overcome the disease.
COMBATING DENGUE IMPOSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC SUPPORT: COMMISSIONER: Lahore Commissioner Rashid Mahmood Langrial on Friday said that only awareness and complete practice of anti-dengue instructions can ensure a dengue free society.
He said that all efforts of administration would be incomplete without the participation and cooperation of people. The commissioner visited UC 84 Rasool Park Samanabad and UC 94 Shahjamal regarding anti-dengue campaign. He, with Provincial Minister Bilal Yasin distributed dengue awareness pamphlets among passer-byes and local residents. He took feedback from the citizens regarding government’s efforts and also asked them to clean their houses and adopt all preventive measures against dengue mosquitoes.
He directed the town municipal officers (TMO) to ensure spray in all high risk union councils including biological, mechanical and chemical procedures.
After visiting union councils, he also participated in the dengue response committee meeting of Data Ganj Baksh Town and said that dengue kits had been provided to all towns and trained nurses from hospitals had also been deputed in towns for dengue programme.