RAWALPINDI: District Health Authority(DHA) has lodged 34 FIRs and sealed 36 premises on violations of anti-dengue SOPs from January 1, 2024, to date.
District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC), Dr Sajjad Mehmood Sunday said that the health department, in collaboration with allied departments, had issued tickets to 79 and imposed a fine of Rs 124,000 on violations of dengue SOPs during the year.
The health officer informed that four dengue patients had been reported in the district so far while the number was two in 2023 and one in 2022 during the period.
Dr Sajjad added that during indoor vector surveillance, the teams checked 1,028,145 houses and larvae were detected at 1,473 sites while during outdoor surveillance larvae were found at 251 spots while inspecting 264,879 places.
He said the present spell of rains had increased the threat of dengue larvae breeding which needed to be tackled on an emergency basis, adding the district health authority had devised an effective micro plan to
control the spread of dengue keeping in view the previous year’s statistics.
The health officer added that concerted efforts were in place to screen every nook and corner of the district so that dengue could not become an epidemic this year.
He urged the residents to keep their water tanks clean and not to leave any place wet with stagnant water.