KHYBER
To sensitize the issue, a Dengue awareness walk was conducted here in Landi Kotal on Monday.
The activity was organized by the local administration and beside Assistant Commissioner (AC), Landi Kotal Akbar Iftekhar, city mayor Shah Khalid, President Anjumane Tajeran Landi Kotal Haji Jaffer, councilors and people from different walks of life participated in it.
The participants while holding banners, inscribed with slogans against spread of the disease, marched in the Bazaar to alert the dwellers of the illness.
Speaking on the occasion speakers said that Dengue fever is a deadly disease and the only preventive measure is to keep clean water covered.
Dengue mosquito is a social one and only breeds in clean water, therefore efforts should be made to avoid exposed water storing systems in houses and streets, they said.
Earlier,AC paid a surprise visit to Landi Kotal Bazaar and checked prices and quality of various food items.
He also visited the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) center and examined its process of providing basic identification documents to the masses.
He stressed the manager of the center to increase counters for both male and female to facilitate visitors of far-flung areas as soon as possible and to avoid inconvenience of believers in the month of Ramadan.
