Tag: Dengue

More than 3,900 ill from dengue in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A continuous increase has been seen in dengue patients as one more doctor at Peshawar’s Khyber Teaching Hospital was diagnosed with the disease on...

Dengue death toll rises to eleven in KP

The menace of Dengue has claimed the lives of eleven people in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as the total number of cases climb to...

AJK on high alert as Dengue spreads in KP

  The widespread of Dengue virus in the neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province has threatened Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), and the AJK government has...

KP appreciates Punjab’s aid in dengue control, says minister

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Primary & Secondary Health Imran Nazir has said that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are praying for CM Shehbaz Sharif and...

Dengue virus claims one more life in Peshawar

The victim was being treated at the Khyber Teaching Hospital in the provincial capital.

WHO team raises concerns over poor state of public hospitals in...

KARACHI: The dire state of public hospitals in Karachi has raised concerns among the visiting delegation of World Health Organization that are in the...

NIFA prepares eco-friendly bio-larvicide to control mosquitoes spreading dengue, Zika

The Nuclear Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has prepared an environment-friendly bio-larvicide for birth control of mosquitoes spreading fatal diseases like dengue and...

17 more dengue cases surface in Karachi

As many as 17 new dengue fever cases were reported in Karachi city from January 1 to 7. According to the weekly report issued by...

Cabinet committee on dengue meets on Nov 28

Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique will preside over a meeting of the cabinet committee on dengue on Monday (Nov...

40 more dengue cases detected in Rawalpindi

The dengue fever outbreak in Rawalpindi has reached to a dramatic level as 40 more patients were reported to have been admitted in various...

316 buildings sealed, over Rs0.7m fine imposed on violation of Dengue...

The Rawalpindi district administration has sealed around 316 buildings including tyre shops and junkyards, while slapping a fine of over Rs0.7 million for violating...

2,000 dengue fever cases surfaced in Sindh this year

In 2016, about 2,000 dengue fever cases were reported across the Sindh province, out of which 1,650 were detected from Karachi alone, while dengue...

6 dengue cases in Swabi

According to hospital sources, six patients of dengue fever were admitted in different hospitals of the district over the last month. The people of the...

Three more dengue cases surface in Tharparkar

Three new dengue cases surfaced in Tharparkar on Thursday after which the tally had reached to 153. Hospital sources said that three people shifted to...

80% dengue cases from Lahore’s DHA

The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has become an ideal place for dengue since eighty percent cases in the city have been reported there. The recent report...

Dengue data inaccurate as private hospitals hide record

The administration of Prevention and Control Programme for Dengue in Sindh lacks accurate data of dengue patients in Karachi as private hospitals are either...