District Health Department has launched a campaign to avoid dengue outbreak in the city and assigned task to the special teams for destroying mosquito breeding places.
The spokesman of the district administration said that the campaign has been started in the rural areas of the federal capital and sanitary inspectors and lady health workers have been asked for adding Temphos 1% graules in stagnant rain water and ponds.
He said it will help to destroy and eliminate the mosquito breeding cycle, thereby killing the mosquito at its larval stage in the current high transmission season.
District Dengue Control and Surveillance Cell In-charge Dr Najeeb Durrani said that sanitary inspectors and the Lady Health Workers have been advised to identify active breeding sites by making extensive visits in the villages, bazaars and congested areas where the rain water had accumulated.
He said the people would be advised to avoid solid waste collection inside and around houses to prevent dengue mosquitoes from laying eggs.
Solid waste plays an important role as the rain water gets accumulated in the trash that attracts female mosquitoes to lay their eggs in large numbers, he added.
Staff of union councils has been directed to dispose of the solid waste quickly.
Hospital based surveillance has been started in the Health Department during the current third phase of dengue outbreak management through epidemic response initiated from September onwards that would last till the end of Dengue Fever season in December.
In this phase, a close collaboration and liaison has been developed with six hospitals of Islamabad.
The Dengue Fever Control Cell is maintaining an active surveillance in the area to carry out an immediate targeted response by tracking patients with the active disease to carry out all necessary preventive and control measures against dengue fever.
Patients travel history, contact, tracing and identification of high risk areas are also main activities during this third phase.
