World Health Organization organizes a workshop on dengue

World Health Organization organizes a workshop on dengue

The World Health Organization (WHO) has organized a workshop on dengue in Islamabad aiming to raise awareness especially in school teachers on how to create responsiveness towards dengue fever among their students.

The workshop not only provided plenty of information to the teachers but it was also meant for the general public to understand the very idea to adopt better practices in order  to eradicate this deadly disease that has caused thousands of citizens across
the country.

Along with WHO, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) Health Directorate is also involved conducting this workshop in Islamabad.                                                                               

The workshop was highly contemporary for Pakistani people in a way as its organizers developed guidelines for school teachers in English, Urdu and Sindhi as to distinguish better in their own languages and made available a booklet which was compiled with
easy-to- understand illustrations and messages signifying different daily practices for having fewer chances getting this fatal disease.

The WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Medical Officer Dr Rana Kakar also attended the workshop and later spoke to them. He told the participants especially most of the teachers that this particular dengue-resource material is the first WHO
sponsored attempt to join forces among the different sectors of the country to fight dengue in Pakistan which is now becoming a serious pandemic.          

Not everyone knows as Dengue is a virus, one of the most significant arthropod-borne viral diseases in the world and now causing globally 50-100 million people per year. The four kinds of dengue virus, which traditionally have distressed selected damp regions,
have been extending and spreading some other geographical regions and that is why has become a serious public health threat worldwide.   

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Posted by Umair Hassan on Nov 3 2011. Filed under Health, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry