Expressing displeasure over surge in the number of dengue patients in Rawalpindi and Lahore, Punjab Chief minister Sardar Usman Buzdar reprimanded the administrative officers for failing to implement instructions issued for the eradication of dengue disease.
During a high-level meeting held at his office, here on Thursday, the CM inquired why the dengue disease is not controlled despite issuance of SOPs. Every year, anti-dengue measures are adopted but why negligence has been shown now, he questioned? An inquiry would be held where delay and negligence is shown, he added.
The CM directed the chief secretary to identify responsible persons through an investigation adding that action will be initiated against them in light of the inquiry report. It is regrettable that administrative officers did not take required steps in time, he added.
'All is good" mantra would not work. It is intolerable that officers are sitting in their offices while the people are becoming victim to dengue. An alarming situation has arisen in Rawalpindi due to dengue disease, he said.
The CM directed to take steps on an emergent basis in Rawalpindi to overcome dengue adding that close coordination should be maintained with the Islamabad administration as well.
He said that government directions were not fully implemented and directed the officials showing negligence should be pin-pointed and they would not be let off.
The meeting decided to make the anti-dengue campaign more effective and decisive and the chief minister directed that anti-dengue monitoring system should be fully implemented and high-alert should be issued with regard to dengue in Lahore. There should be no dengue case and this is my final direction, the chief minister warned.
Usman Buzdar made it clear that not even a little leniency will be tolerated with regard to implementation of the anti-dengue plan.
He directed the Health department and administrative officers to personally monitor the anti-dengue SOPs and added that field teams should be re-activated along with emergency-response committees working at the district level.
The chief minister was briefed that dengue spread in Rawalpindi due to misreporting of the concerned officials. How it is possible a patient succumbs to dengue and dengue larvae is not founded in that specific locality? Only seven out of 114 big hospitals in Lahore are submitting reports about dengue patients.
Provincial Ministers Dr Yasmin Rashid, Hashim Jawan Bakht, Yasir Humayun, Saeed-ul-Hassan Shah, chief secretary, Chairman CMIT, secretaries, Commissioner Lahore and others attended the meeting while ACS, Commissioners, DCs and CEOs of DHA attended the meeting through video link.
Moreover, the CM has tweeted that Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Ordinance has been enforced in six medical universities in the first phase to improve the administrative matters of the hospitals adding that these reforms would help to improve the hospitals.
Contrary to the rumours, hospitals and their staff would remain government employees and the government would continue to provide the budget for free treatment, he said, adding: "The government would constitute the search committee to choose the best officials to run the hospitals and provincial policy board will be constituted, as well."
He said that Punjab MTI Ordinance has been finalized after the homework of 12 months. In the initial drafts, some changes have been made in consultation with doctors and professionals and learning from the experiences of KPK.
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