Dengue fever has been increasingly becoming an epidemic in Pakistan. Due to the high cost of treatment, the disease spread more rapidly in 2011 than in previous years. As of November 2011, it has killed over 300 people in the last several months and over 14,000 are infected by this mosquito born disease in Pakistan. Considering the threats of this fever, Faisal Public school organized a campaign and seminar at school to make children aware about the possible precautions and locally available solutions to get cure against this disease. Children were exposed to different educational materials, practices, solutions and preventive methodologies against dengue fever. Children took part in this campaign by reading materials about locally available solutions, writing stories, poems and by performing in a play about telling the stories of possible solutions. This interesting movie is partly in English and Urdu and written by school children. The movie directed by Mr. Babar Maqbool Khan with the help of children.
Mr. Khan is working as school head and has been a student of MKFC In-Service Teacher Training during 2009-2011.
Dear Braz, thanks for your comments. At the moment we don’t have any information about how much does it cost exactly to treat a patient in Pakistan. But reading about it in wikipedia it said that due to high cost of treatment, the disease spread more rapidly in 2011 than in previous years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_dengue_outbreak_in_Pakistan) We will send a query about it to our students and let’s hope we will get an answer soon.
Best regards
Alamdar