Tag: Dengue
2 more dengue patients die in Lahore, toll reaches 20
Dengue fever claimed two more lives in Lahore that has increased the toll to twenty on Thursday. A staff member of the Mayo Hospital...
Dengue emergency: Raja Riaz seeks PA session postponement
Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Raja Riaz Thursday said the elected representatives should focus on their constituencies, instead...
PML-Q bashes CM for ignoring city slums in dengue fumigation drive
Alleging that the Punjab government ignored the city slums in the fumigation drive, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Pervaiz Elahi directed party workers on...
Dengue buzzes in PA proceeding
The dengue fever epidemic in the province dominated the Punjab Assembly proceedings on Wednesday, as the opposition Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) held the provincial...
Caught in the net: The dengue scare
The Government of Pakistan, already under immense pressure to aid hundreds of thousands of people affected by massive floods in the south of the...
Dengue thirsty for foreign blood as well
Around a dozen foreign students at Punjab University (PU) have been infected with dengue thanks to poor cleanliness arrangements and lack of anti-dengue spray...
CDGL adds 400 pumps to dengue campaign
City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has planned to make available 400 spray pumps in two days with recruitment of 500 daily wagers to intensify...
Curing dengue at development’s cost?
The dengue epidemic has sucked up all resources and attention of the Health Department, while all other development activity in the health sector has...
Nation offers special prayers for flood victims, dengue patients
The nation offered special prayers on Wednesday throughout the country after Zuhr prayers on the appeal of President Asif Ali Zardari for the flood...
Doing everything to control dengue: Punjab CM
Punjab Chief minister Shahbaz Sharif claimed taking all the possible steps to overcome dengue threat.
Speaking to media after briefing over dengue outbreak in the...
3 more dengue patients expire, death toll reaches 17
Dengue virus continues to play havoc with the lives of citizens in Punjab as more patients suffering of the disease expired in a hospital...
Dengue threat looms over National T20 Championship
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is taking every possible step to ensure a dengue-free National Twenty20 Championship, which has engulfed Punjab, affecting more than...
Sri Lankan doctors to assist Punjab govt in dengue control
A team of medical experts from Sri Lanka would help the Punjab government in coping up with the fast spreading dengue epidemic, Health Secretary...
Power load shedding causing an increase in dengue cases
The health experts suggested that mass awareness campaign should be launched by involving media, educational institutions and community leaders to control the causes of...
Dengue claims Punjab minerals secretary’s life
The death of Mines and Minerals Secretary Ataullah Siddiqui at the hands of the dengue virus on Monday has raised several questions on the...
PM orders dengue ward at Sheikh Zayed Hospital
On the orders of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, the administration of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore on Monday dedicated a 20-bed special ward...
PPA joins in to combat dengue
The Punjab Paramedical Alliance (PPA) said on Monday that it would extend its support to the Punjab chief minister and the health department in...
