Tag: Dengue

More dengue cases reported in city

  KARACHI: As many as 195 more dengue fever cases were reported in Karachi city from October 17 to October 23, taking the patients toll...

Anti-dengue measures paying off in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: The anti-dengue measures in Peshawar are paying off as entomologists of University of Peshawar (UoP) have presented a report to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)...

110 more dengue cases surface in city

KARACHI: As many as 110 more dengue fever cases were reported in Karachi from October 4 to 9, taking the patient toll to 1,369...

Anti-dengue regulations: 747 arrests made, 5,232 firs registered against violations in...

LAHORE: As a result of effective measures taken by the concerned government departments and intensive dengue outdoor and indoor surveillance, dengue situation in Punjab is...

27 fall victim to dengue in Karachi in first week of...

KARACHI: At least 27 people have been infected with dengue virus during the first week of October in the metropolis, it was reported on...

Minister orders preventive measures against mosquito-borne ailments

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Dr Sikandar Ali Mandhro taking strong exception to the reported surge in malaria and dengue fever cases has directed...

Meeting held to review preventive measures against dengue

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafiq presided over the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Dengue in the Committee Room,...

Jirga’s ultimatum for controlling dengue going to expire on Sunday

PESHAWAR: The five days ultimatum given by elders of Khalil Qaumi Jirga to KP government for taking practical steps to control dengue epidemic is...

Dengue claims two more lives in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Two more people have died due to dengue virus in Peshawar on Thursday, bringing the death toll from the outbreak in the provincial...

Health minister urges strict vigilance to avoid dengue outbreak

Forms committee to ensure dengue prevention and control Approx 30,000 people affected in KP, says Salman Rafique   ISLAMABAD: Responding to the current reports of...

‘Concerned departments have to enhance anti-dengue activities’

LAHORE: On the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Minister for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique and Minister for Primary Health...

Death toll due to dengue in KP rises to 23

PESHAWAR: Two more persons died of dengue fever here on Wednesday taking the death toll to 23. On the other hand, suspected patients continued...

CM Shehbaz for accelerating dengue surveillance activities

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to accelerate the dengue surveillance activities in the wake of recent rains and...

‘Dengue killed 18 in KP, 3500 patients fully recovered’

450 still seeking treatment, says KP health minister PESHAWAR: Provincial Minister for Health, Shahram Khan Tarkai said on Thursday that 18 patients have died due to...

Thousands suffer from malaria, dengue as South Asia’s worst floods in...

Thousands of people are suffering from an outbreak of diarrhoea, malaria and dengue in Bangladesh and Nepal as the waters from the worst floods...

Dengue claims another life in KP

PESHAWAR: A woman under treatment for dengue virus in the Khyber Teaching Hospital succumbed to the disease, bringing the death toll to16 in the...

NIH urges healthcare authorities to curb dengue transmission

ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has asked the health care authorities to further strengthen and improve the level of preparedness in prevention...