HYDERABAD, Oct 31: City Taluka Nazim Javed Jabbar on Monday inaugurated a campaign against dengue fever and mosquitoes in the city and directed the health officials to continue fumigation until the virus was completely eliminated.

Presiding over a special meeting with taluka officials, Naib City Nazim Ghulam Shabbir Chishti, EDO Health Dr Mehfooz Ahmed Qureshi, Dr Ghufran, Dr Naeem Motiwala, Dr Jamil Arain, union council nazims and representatives of traders’ organisations, Mr Jabbar said that fumigation would be carried out in two taluka union councils every day. He said that all the nazims and naib nazims of union councils had been directed to immediately move the patients who were suffering from high fever to government hospitals to help diagnose their disease.

The EDO health said that one reason for spread of dengue virus in the city might be its proximity to Karachi. However, the situation was under control with 17 dengue cases so far diagnosed out of whom one had died, he added.