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  • 4,000 dengue cases reported in five months in Balochistan

    Up to 4,000 dengue cases of dengue have been reported in Balochistan over the past five months, Syed Ali Shah has reported for Express Tribune.

    Flood victims across the country have been in the grip of a variety of mosquito and waterborne diseases as Balochistan has reported over 4,000 dengue cases over the past five months.

    Lasbela, Kech, Gwadar, and Panjgur districts reported the majority of the cases.

    Around 250 dengue cases have been detected over the past several days from various locations in Balochistan, a health official said.
    To limit the spread of dengue and malaria, Abdul Aziz Uqaili, Chief Secretary of Balochistan, has ordered the authorities to spray repellent fog in the afflicted districts.

    Dengue, a viral illness spread by the Aedes Egypti mosquito, is a potentially fatal disease with common symptoms being high-grade fever, body aches and eye pain

  • Sindh to fumigate houses of all dengue patients

    Sindh to fumigate houses of all dengue patients

    To combat the spread of dengue in the province, Sindh government has decided to conduct fumigation in the homes of all dengue patients as well as 20 additional homes in their immediate vicinity.

    The plan was finalized at a meeting held on Thursday at the Sindh Secretariat, presided over by Sindh Chief Secretary Dr Muhammad Sohail Rajput. The meeting was held to examine the province’s dengue outbreak response strategy.
    To fight dengue, the Sindh government would hire additional epidemiologists and launch public awareness programmes. Barrister Murtaza Wahab, Administrator of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) said that fumigation would be carried out in locations where several dengue cases had been detected.

    He stated that the KMC had used 30 vehicles to execute the anti-dengue spraying campaign in the city. He stated that the Sindh Health Care Commission’s services have been used to reduce the cost of dengue diagnostic testing. The committee resolved that health specialists from Punjab would be brought in to train doctors and other officials involved in Sindh’s dengue-control campaign.

    The meeting was informed that 4,031 cases of dengue fever had been found in the province since the beginning of the current year, with nine persons dying as a result of the viral disease. In 2021, the province reported 6373 dengue cases.

    Dengue, a viral illness spread by the Aedes Egypti mosquito, is a potentially fatal disease with common symptoms being high-grade fever, body aches and eye pain.