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RAWALPINDI:
The Rawalpindi district has put collectively a ‘micro-level anti-dengue plan’ that features measures comparable to concentrating on ponds and different breeding grounds for larvae which might be authorised by finish January and enforce on February 6, the well being division stated Friday.
The plan, which incorporates encouraging breeding geese as a countermeasure, has been devised as a consequence of a year-on-year improve within the variety of instances. Nonetheless, the district didn’t report any dengue-related deaths in 2023, having had reported fatalities a 12 months earlier.
Farmers in rural areas might be inspired to lift geese if there are extra open ponds in these locations, it stated, including that home geese desire mosquito larvae as their eating regimen.
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This 12 months, 2,686 sufferers had been handled for dengue at authorities hospitals. In the meantime, non-public hospitals reported no less than 20,000 sufferers who got here in with dengue-like signs, whereas authorities hospitals additionally reported 17,418 suspected instances who had been saved beneath remark however didn’t check optimistic for dengue.
The division added that designated dengue wards had been arrange. In 14 small and huge hospitals within the Rawalpindi space, 228 beds had been put aside for dengue sufferers. On December 1, solely 23 of these beds had been used to deal with sufferers, the division stated.
The information shared by the division revealed 64 per cent of dengue sufferers to be male and 36 per cent feminine.
The division stated it discovered extra extra dengue larvae than the earlier 12 months. The information confirmed that in 2021, a little bit over 40,000 places, together with residences and under-construction websites, had been discovered to have dengue larvae. In 2022, the variety of websites elevated to 50,769 homes.
Printed in The Specific Tribune, December 5th, 2023.
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