The NIH has received 34 fresh samples of suspected cases of Dengue fever from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Mardan, and Sawabi, during the last 24 hours.
“Since there is no cure available, only public health preventive measures can contain further spread of the virus. Also, a mass awareness campaign has been expanded and authorities have been providing bed nets and insecticides in localities worst affected,” Dr Kamran Jalil, a medical officer at the National Institute of Health (NIH) said in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
“A total of 2,009 suspected cases of dengue fever have so far been reported in various hospitals across the country, out of which 596 have been confirmed as positive,” Syed Anwar Mehmood, the federal health secretary said in a press briefing on Sunday.
In the last 24 hours, 49 patients admitted earlier with signs and symptoms of Dengue fever were discharged from different hospitals in Karachi and parts of Sindh after full recovery whereas 65 patients were admitted in various hospitals of Karachi and different other districts of Sindh with symptoms similar to Dengue fever.