Anti-dengue SOPs violating registered Over 2,000 Cases
ISLAMABAD:
The Rawalpindi Administration had registered around 2,388 first info reports
(FIRs) related to defilements of the anti-dengue normal operating procedures
(SOPs) from January 1 to date in numerous zones of the district, while the
total confirmed cases got 2,360, said District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention
and Control (DCEPC) Dr. Sajjad Mehmood here Sunday.
Giving
details of the penal actions, the health officer said that the district
administration, in collaboration with allied departments, must close 572
premises, issued challans to 7,228, notices to 9,742 and a fine of Rs 5,883,416
forced on violations of dengue SOPs.
Dr.
Sajjad informed that around 2,360 confirmed cases had been stated in the
district this year, though the number was 3,143 in 2019, 11 in 2020, and 201 in
2021 throughout the period.
Presently,265
patients having positive symptoms have been admitted to the city's allied
hospitals, including 113 to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital,82 to the District
Headquarters Hospital, and 70 to the Holy Family Hospital.
He
thought that the district administration was making all-out efforts to control
the widespread as per the SOPs delivered by the administration through
squirting and clouding at patient's residences along 48 houses together to the
victim's homes being carried out besides removing larvae.
Dr
Sajjad said that dengue fever was not a dangerous disease, however, it can cause
plain dangerous complications if not treated correctly.
"If
you consume a fever of 3-10 days period with related signs like headache,
muscle and joint pains, retro-orbital pain (pain behind the eyeballs) and skin
rash, then you essential to become yourself checked", he added.
The
health officer advised the peoples to clean their water tanks and not leave any
place showery with quiet water.
Anti-Dengue Spray
The
citizens of housing societies situated on both sides of the Islamabad
Expressway, from Faizabad to Rawat, are visible to the risk of dengue and other
viral pollutions that are dispersal through the country post-monsoon. The
related civic bodies must instantly arrange anti-dengue spray in areas around
the expressway. This will surely save many lives.
SYED
MUZAMMIL HUSSAIN
ISLAMABAD
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