Staff Reporter Peshawar
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to launch a special project to improve the general sanitation, drainage and water supply system in dengue hot spots of the provincial metropolitan Peshawar as a long term strategy to effectively contain the breeding of dengue mosquito.
These hotspots include Bazid Khel, Mashokhel, Phando, Thekal, Sufaid Dehri, Pishta Khara, Acheni, Kotla Mohsin Khan, Sarband and others.
The decision was taken in a high level meeting held here on Tuesday with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair.
The meeting reviewed the latest dengue situation in the province with special focus on Peshawar division, Anti-Dengue measures being taken by the concerned departments and district administrations.
The meeting also reviewed the implementation status of decisions taken in the last meeting held under the chair of Chief Minister to curb dengue.
Provincial Ministers Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Kamran Bangash, administrative secretaries of concerned departments, Commissioner Peshawar, Director General Peshawar Development Authority and officials of health department attended the meeting.
The Chief Minister, while stressing the need to undertake a special project to improve general sanitation, drainage and drinking water supply system on war footings in the Hot Spots of Peshawar, directed the health department to immediately identify such interventions in those affected areas further directing the local government department to prepare a PC-1 for those interventions.
The chief minister directed the quarters concerned to ensure implementation of all activities under the proposed project by March next year and directed the commissioner Peshawar to personally monitor the implementation of the project.
He also directed all the divisional commissioners to monitor Anti-Dengue activities in their respective divisions further directing that report of all such activities be sent to Chief Minister Secretariat on regular basis.
Mahmood Khan said that his government would provide all the required resources on priority basis to contain dengue in the province however, he stated that all concerned departments and entities would have to fulfill their respective responsibilities in effective manners with regard to the implementation of Anti-Dengue Plan in its letter & spirit, and said that in case of any negligence, strict action will be taken against the responsible ones.
Briefing about the implementation status of decisions taken in the last meeting, it was informed that dengue tests were being carried free of cost in the three tertiary level hospitals of Peshawar.
