Acting Commissioner/DCO Rawalpindi, Saqib Zafar, has directed the Health Department of City District Government and Municipal Administration authorities that the larva siding campaign would be finished up to March 31st and spray against Dengue Virus be started from 1st April so that the dengue mosquitoes could not be flourished.
Graveyards, ponds and public places should not be ignored in the campaign. The ongoing campaign against the tyre shops be accelerated. Private and co-operative housing societies as well as private schools administrations should be served with notices to arrange the fogging spray with their own resources, he added. He passed these directions in a meeting held under his chairmanship to review the progress of arrangements of anti-dengue campaign which was also attended by EDO Health Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal, MD, PHA Captain, Muhstaq Ahmed, ADC(G) Saif Anwar Jappah, DO Health Dr Khalid Randhawa, Incharge Anti Dengue Campaign Dr Ansar Ishaq, DFC Shafiq
Niazi, TMO Potohar Town Malik Mumtaz Ahmed, TMO Rawal Town Wasiq Ullah Qureshi, Secretary RTA Asad Raza Kazmi and other concerned authorities. In 13 union councils of Potohar Town, this campaign had been completed while in remaining UCs this campaign was going on and would be completed up to the end of this month.