Punjab Government will take all preventive measures to control dengue, including providing facilities of free of cost collection of blood samples and their testing for the disease.
“The department will take all preventive measures to control vector-borne diseases. The doctors have been sensitised to tackle the occurrence of dengue in the State,” said State Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani.He said that larvae surveillance activities have also been enhanced with the close coordination of district and town administrations across the State.
Jayani said that diagnostic tests of suspected dengue cases in the laboratories of the Government hospitals would be done free of cost and blood samples would also be collected free of cost.As compared to 2,514 dengue cases reported the previous year, 214 cases have come to light so far this fiscal, he said.