Sri Lankan HC meets Punjab CM to discuss dengue
September 24, 2011 07:29 am
Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Pakistan Air Chief Marshal
(retd) Jayalath Weerakkody met Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif in
Lahore.
Matters of cooperation in dengue control were discussed in the meeting. The
chief minister thanked Sri Lankan president, government and people for their
cooperation and sending a medical team to Lahore to cope with the dengue.
The chief minister said he would visit Colombo to thank the Sri Lankan
president, government and the people for this help. He said that it had been
decided to set up the Punjab Dengue Eradication Control Authority. He said an
effective mechanism was also being evolved for dengue control with the
cooperation of Sri Lanka team and in consultation with local experts.
He said Public Health Department would be reorganised in the light of the
measures taken in Sri Lanka to eliminate dengue virus and other viral diseases.
He said doctors and paramedical staff would be sent to Sri Lanka for training
while master trainers were being prepared with the consultation of Sri Lankan
medical team. He said that local doctors and paramedical staff were also
rendering commendable services to the ailing humanity in this hour of need. He
directed the planning and development chairman, additional chief secretary and
health secretary to evolve a strategy for soliciting cooperation of the Sri
Lankan High Commissioner in eradication of dengue virus, Pakistan media reports.
