Two-year-old Umer of Sheikhupura died of measles at Mayo Hospital on Friday while 110 more measles patients were reported in Lahore.
“The Health Department has 5 million injections of the measles vaccination and children are being vaccinated,” a spokesman of the Health Department said.
Measles also a cause for concern
The education and health departments should help spread awareness among students to adopt preventive measures against measles, Schools Secretary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh said on Friday.
Speaking at a meeting on dengue eradication in Samanabad Town, Kamboh said that in addition to dengue fever, students also needed to be aware of ways through which diseases such as measles could be prevented.
He directed the Parks and Horticulture Authority officials as well as those from the Fisheries Department present at the meeting to visit Gulshan Iqbal Park, twice a week, and file a report on the elimination of dengue larvae.
Kamboh said that an entomologist had informed him that the Punjab University hostels were a potential breeding site for dengue but the university administration was not cooperating in this regard.
He also directed the Water and Sanitation Agency to take steps to repair the broken sewage pipes at Rasool Park.
Separately, Punjab University Public Relations director Isar Rana told The Express Tribune that the university had its own committee on dengue, comprising researchers, scientists and experts.
He said that the administration had already sprayed at the varsity and that it was ‘not appropriate to say that the administration did not cooperate’ in an anti-dengue campaign. Press release
Published in The Express Tribune, April 20th, 2013.