Dengue killed three more people here on Saturday in Lahore hospitals; meanwhile the death toll increased to 259 in Lahore and 293 in Punjab.
As per details in fresh deaths, Waqas Ali 18, resident of Gurumangat
and Majida 45, resident of Pak Nagar died due to dengue virus at
Services Hospital. Meanwhile Allah Rakhi resident of Labal died due to
dengue virus at Sheikh Zayed Hospital.
Punjab health department reported that the number of dengue patients
have been decreased due to change in weather, over 19 thousand dengue
patients have been reported in Punjab out of them 16584 are belongs to
Lahore.
On the other hand, addressing the meeting of emergency dengue control
committee Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif stressed on the
effective measures for the elimination of dengue virus; meanwhile he
directed the administration for fogging spray in markets and business
centers on eid occasion.
He said that training program for anti-dengue campaign is continued
and more than 416 doctors and nurses were given training, adding that
the health system at schools become ensured and special teams would make
sudden visits; meanwhile different secretaries of Punjab government and
commissioner Lahore briefed the SANA
