Dengue spreads its tentacles

LAHORE - Dengue cases have touched the figure of 800 in different cities including 730 in Lahore alone causing seven deaths so far including three women, The Nation has learnt on Tuesday.

Out of seven, six patients died in the City while one death was reported in Faisalabad. On Tuesday, 95 new dengue cases have been reported positive including 60 patients in the public hospitals of the provincial metropolis.

The number of cases of dengue fever being reported in different cities and the number of deaths it caused suggest the health department and the district government have not yet made any extra effort to control the disease.

The health officials under pressure to do more think that only rain or an early winter could come to their rescue. The doctors and health officials, it is learnt, are in close contact with weather pundits praying all the time for an early rain or winter.