Islamabad - Islamabad District Health Department (IDHD) has launched a campaign to avoid dengue outbreak in the city and assigned task to special teams for obliterating mosquito breeding places.
The spokesman of the District Administration told APP that the campaign has been started in the rural areas of Islamabad and sanitary inspectors and lady health workers have been asked for to drain out the stagnant rain water and ponds.
He added that it would help to destroy and eliminate the mosquito breeding places thereby killing the mosquito at its larval stage in the current high transmission season.
In-charge District Dengue Control and Surveillance Cell, ICT, Dr. Najeeb Durrani told 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 has been accumulate during the recent rains.
He said that people would be advised to avoid solid waste collection inside and around houses to prevent dengue mosquitoes from laying eggs.
He told that solid waste plays an important role as the rainwater gets accumulated in the garbage that attracts female mosquitoes to lay their eggs. Staff of various union councils has been directed to dispose of the solid waste quickly.
In this phase, a close collaboration and liaison has been developed with six hospitals in Islamabad.
The Dengue Fever Control Cell is maintaining an active surveillance in many areas to carry out an immediate targeted response by tracking patients with 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 among the main activities during this third phase. Data analysis is the continued activity in this phase, he added.
Dengue risk endangers Gawalmandi
Gawalmandi has been declared as a high-risk dengue-hit area in Rawalpindi cantonment.
Fogging work has been started as last option in this area with the approval of the government of Punjab to obliterate dengue larva. Meanwhile, One more dengue patient has been confirmed in this locality raising the tally of patients to 13.
The dengue fever is spreading with soaring pace that caused distress among the residents.
Anti-dengue teams conducted the fogging work in all the streets and homes in Gali Kumharan and Khayaban-e-Sir Syed.