Chandigarh: The Health and Family Welfare Minister, Punjab, Dr. Vijay Singla has directed the speeding up of fogging process in order to prevent dengue from spreading.

Chairing a meeting of the State Task Force constituted for controlling dengue, the Minister said that many cases of dengue are being reported from some parts of the country. Apart from this, some cases were also reported from Punjab due to the use of coolers in the households owing to early onset of summer. Therefore, we need to be cautious from now on.

The minister directed the officers of the department that the symptoms of scrubtyphus and laptospyrosis also resemble that of dengue but these affect other organs of the body which has resulted in some deaths during last year due to these two diseases. Hence, special attention needs to be paid from preventing these from spreading.

Disclosing further, the minister said that fogging needs to be accelerated in the cities, towns and villages apart from running a special awareness campaign involving children. For this, special camps must be organized in the schools to prevent dengue. He ordered the officials of Health Department to also involve NGOs in the awareness campaign.

Dr. Singla directed the officers of the Water Supply and Sanitation Department to immediately rectify the malfunctioning R.O. systems anywhere in the state which have been installed to purify water.

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Chandigarh: The Punjab government seems to be in deep slumber as the state has recorded highest every dengue case this year. The state has reported 16, 129 cases including 60 deaths have been reported.

Punjab had recorded highest fatalities in a 2017 when 15, 398 persons got infected and 18 reported dies due to dengue.

In last one month, the state recorded over 12, 000 cases and 50 deaths, which is worst ever spike in a month, as per the health officials experts.

SAS Nagar district is the worst-affected district with 2,457 cases and 31 deaths, followed by Bathinda 2,063 dengue cases and 4 deaths, Hoshiarpur recorded 1,465 cases, Amritsar 1,461 cases and Pathankot registered 1,434 dengue cases and 1 death so far.

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