{"id":50681,"date":"2024-10-01T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=50681"},"modified":"2024-10-01T20:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:17:18","slug":"dengue-outbreak-health-emergency-imposed-in-rawalpindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/dengue-outbreak-health-emergency-imposed-in-rawalpindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue outbreak: Health emergency imposed in Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Due to the significant increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/dengue-cases-surge-in-pakistan-with-69-cases-reported-in-rawalpindi-in-single-day\/\">dengue cases<\/a>, the authorities have decided to impose a health emergency across the district.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Anti-Dengue, Infectious Diseases and Disaster Management, which also tasked a technical group to investigate the causes of dengue deaths and the severity of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>According to Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafiq, special attention will be given to the medical management of dengue patients, arrangements will be made for dengue treatment in private hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, public awareness campaigns will be conducted to increase awareness about the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja Imran Nazir stressed the need for an action plan next month, similar to the strategy used in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/massive-pothole-swallowed-three-vehicles-in-lahore-causing-severe-traffic-disruption\/\">Lahore<\/a>, which has resulted in an improvement in the dengue situation there.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns remain about a further rise in dengue cases in Rawalpindi, prompting government hospitals to increase treatment capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Due to the significant increase in dengue cases, the authorities have decided to impose a health emergency across the district. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Anti-Dengue, Infectious Diseases and Disaster Management, which also tasked a technical group to investigate the causes of dengue deaths and the severity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[968,1157,768],"class_list":["post-50681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-banking-court-in-lahore","tag-dengue-cases","tag-dengue-outbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50690,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50681\/revisions\/50690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}