Adil Najam
Following up on our earlier post on Dengue Fever in Pakistan, maybe I was wrong about the extent of public health awareness after all.
There is very little that I can add to the facts included in the caption of this photograph in the Dawn today (7 November, 2006):
“The sewage and all kinds of garbage accumulated behind the special isolation ward for dengue fever patients in the Jinnah Hospital mocks at the government claim of having taken measures to contain mosquito borne disease.”
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What a disgrace…Maybe be the erstwhile Nazim, the Prime Minister, and the President-General can show this as evidence of the great work under the Tameer-e-Karachi program that they keep harping on for the past few years.
Please let’s drop the facade and stop dirtying the kind name of the founder of the country by associating it with filth and disease! I vote for changing the name of this hospital to “gaurment hospital karachi” until they can achieve even miminal second world hygiene standards. It should also be MANDATORY for all government and military officers (Grade 17 and up) and their families to be treated at this hospital on public expense.
It is ridiculous and downright criminal to hold World Islamic Economic conferences and talk about “moderate enlightenment” in the Muslim World when you can’t even clean up the largest freakin’ government hospital in the country!
Its really sad and disgusting indeed. Dengue comes from mosquito, which results from sewage and garbage. I just wonder if our authorities are not picking up the garbage then at least they should give some public awarness about certain water born disease. I was with Aga Khan Health team in Pakistan when they made a research on Hepatitis B and C. It was sad to know that only in Punjab a very big population was infected. According to dawn in 2003 8 million Pakistanis are infected of this deadly disease. Both Dengue and Hepatitis are no doubt in various cases transmitted from person to person. HEV(Hepatitis E) infection is endemic in Pakistan. Sources of water are often contaminated by human waste carrying HEV and other deadly viruses. All what the authorities need to educate the people. As it is not only the Aids which is silent killer.
Younis,
I am intrested to know satellite imagery would be used to control the fever?
controlling dengue is not rocket science, political will and common sense thats all it take to get rid,
karachi university did some research and used satellite imagery to stop the spread of disease in karachi but what did the government do nothing
You have the headline exactly right. It is disgusting. At a hospital, and the dengue special ward at that! I am speechless!