Anti-Dengue virus campaign yielding positive results: Nasir
By Hina Kiyani

ISLAMABAD—A countrywide campaign against Dengue virus has been launched in collaboration with the local governments and the situation is well under control; said federal health minister Muhammad Nasir Khan.
Speaking at a seminar held at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), here Friday, the health minister said that the ongoing campaign had yielded positive outcome throughout the country. He said the local governments had been directed to dispose of dumps of garbage within two weeks.
Nasir Khan said the government had been facing different challenges in the field of health for the last one and a half years. He, however; said that the government had met the challenges successfully by taking timely steps.
The federal minister said that the government had been monitoring situation emerged after the outbreak of Dengue fever and steps were being taken to control it. Health minister said that 2569 cases of Dengue virus affected people have so far been reported across the country and 800 have been proved positive.
The World Health Organization (WHO) representative, Muhammad Halif Bile on the occasion said that currently 102 countries people were affected from Dengue virus.