RAWALPINDI: The number of dengue patients has been increasing as five people diagnosed with the disease landed in three-government run hospitals of Rawalpindi on Monday.

The patients arrived in Holy Family Hospital (HFH) in Satellite Town, Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) on Murree Road and District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital in Raja Bazaar.

A senior official of the district health authority told Dawn that the number of patients increased to 47 in the district and it was expected that more patients would emerge in the coming days.

He said the district administration and provincial department will clear Chak Jalaldin and Kahuta from dengue larvae as soon as possible, adding that spraying and fogging would be carried out twice a day.

District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC) Dr Sajjad Mehmood told Dawn that three of the five patients were from Chak Jalaldin and one each from Kulyal and cantonment.

He said 12 patients are still admitted at hospitals whereas 37 people have been discharged after recovery and no patient died due to the disease.

Officials of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) drained out water from 10 vacant plots while the environment department inspected 110 tyre shops in the area.

Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2022