Govt establishes ‘special dengue OPD’ at PIMS: Dr Zafar Mirza

ISLAMABAD, Sep 24 (APP):Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Dr Zafar Mirza on Tuesday said that the federal government has started special Dengue Outpatient Department (OPD) at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to serve the patients round the clock.

Addressing a press conference, he said that the timing of OPDs in other federal capital hospitals have been extended while a referral system has been developed to shift the serious patients to major hospitals.

He said that there was no shortage of dengue treatment medicines and testing kits and sufficient quantity of such medical items have been purchased and handed over to the hospitals.