KOHAT: The health department has been directed to conduct a survey in Lachi tehsil on a war footing to eliminate dengue larva.

While chairing a meeting here on Monday, deputy commissioner Zahir Shah Mohmand also directed the concerned officials to carry out a fumigation exercise across the district, especially in Lachi tehsil, where a suspected dengue patient died recently.

He said dengue should be controlled before the contagious disease became out of control.

District health officer, assistant commissioners, district nazim, naib nazim, and heads of line departments were in attendance.

Health officials briefed the DC on the situation in Lachi tehsil where fear had gripped the people after the death of a suspected dengue patient.

The meeting issued a warning to the people to wear full sleeve shirts, cover legs up to feet, take soup, juices and other liquids, use mosquito repellent lotion before going to sleep and cover the potable water with a clean cloth.

Meanwhile, the district administration has declared five imambargahs and eleven mosques as most sensitive and banned entry of 290 firebrand ulema into the district during Muharram.

This was decided at a meeting chaired by the district police officer. The meeting decided to seal Kohat city from seventh of Muharram.

It was informed that police commandoes and personnel of Frontier Constabulary had already been deployed at the sensitive religious places throughout the Kohat district.

The DPO ordered that no vehicle or suspected person should be allowed within 500 meters of imambargahs and the mourning processions, and hoped that the business community would keep the businesses closed on Ashura.

He said that police commandoes and FC personnel would patrol the whole of Kohat bazaar which would be handed over to the security forces after being cleared by the bomb disposal squad.

The DPO authorised the policemen manning the checkposts to take any decision on their own to keep calm during Muharram.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2015

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