LAHORE: On special request by Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz
Sharif, the team of visiting medical experts from Sri Lanka to
eradicate Dengue virus, went to several places at Lahore including
Services Hospital.
The team, during the visit of the hospital
inspected probable birth places of the mosquitoes containing Dengue
virus. They also saw bathrooms, open places, different sewerage points
and dumping area of the hospital.
On the occasion Medical
Superintendent of Services Hospital apprised the Sri Lankan doctors
that a comprehensive waste management plan has been chalked out under
which trash is removed from the hospital on daily basis. He told them
that medical waste is sent to General Hospital Lahore where it is
disposed in incinerator.
On the occasion the team suggested
that it is a dare need to monitor the atmosphere regularly alongwith
cleanliness of the hospital so that mosquitoes as well as larva could
not be survived. Similarly reproduction of larva could be stooped by
using chemicals. Later the Sri Lankan team visited Race Course Park and
Lahore Canal to collect the samples of water form the channel and
fountains. Online
