After a lean day on Sunday, the ruthless dengue virus took lives of seven more persons on Monday. The new victims included four women.
The deadly virus has forced hundreds of more in the City to rush to public sector and private hospitals for preliminary tests. As many as 237 new persons were also confirmed to have been suffering from dengue. The overall tally of the affected persons stands at 25,444. Muhammad Nasir (40), a resident of Narowal, Zarina Bibi (50) of Farooq Gunj, Amina Rasheed (30) of Band Road, Husan Pari (70) of Kot Khawaja Saeed and Shahnaz (50) of Band Road breathed their last at Mayo Hospital. Rafiq Akbar (60) and Khushi Muhammad (80) of Baghbanpura lost their lives at Jinnah Hospital.
Out of the 237 new cases, 48 people were tested positive at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, 32 at Shaikh Zayed Hospital, 31 at Jinnah Hospital, 28 at Mayo Hospital, 21 at Lahore General Hospital, 19 at Children’s Hospital, 14 each at Services Hospital and Institute of Public Health while remaining cases were reported from other public sector hospitals and private healthcare centres in the City.
According to the Punjab Health Department, as many as 198 new cases have been reported from across the province and out of these 150 were from Lahore. As such number of affected people has reached to 15433 of which 13297 relate to Lahore. So far 15226 patients have been recovered and discharged from the various hospitals of Punjab including 13142 from Lahore. Now 1500 patients are under treatment at various hospitals of Punjab including 1207 in Lahore. Seven patients die on Monday and as such death toll has risen to 202, of which 181 from Lahore.
Briefing to the newsmen regarding dengue situation at King Edward Medical University on Monday, Secretary Agriculture Punjab Arif Nadeem said that it has been noticed through the analysis for the last three weeks that dengue virus has started decreasing gradually and 24 percent decrease has been recorded in the province. Vice Chancellor KEMU Prof Asad Aslam Khan, Director Health Information Management System Dr Anwar Janjua and other officers were present in the meeting.
Secretary Agriculture said that the production of larva has decreased considerably in the city. After continuous larviciding at 400 breeding sites, little quality of larva was found at 17 places. He said that the experts of agriculture and health departments were continuously monitoring the insects and strict vigilance of tyre shops, nurseries and other hot spots was being made. He said that the implementation of unanimous guideline formulated by senior consultants of health department for treatment of dengue patients in the light of the recommendations of Sri Lankan and Indonesian medical experts was being ensured that has shown good results.
He said that letters containing unanimous guideline prepared by Prof Faisal Masood for dengue patients have also been sent to all divisional commissioners so that this virus could also be controlled in other districts.
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