Lahore: LHC unhappy with govt’s anti-measles measures

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday expressed resentment over Punjab Health Department’s failure to control measles outbreak. During case hearing, petitioner’s counsel told the court that Health Department was carrying out paper work only to deal with measles outbreak. Justice Khalid Mehmood Khan questioned the government’s lawyer to explain that why the number of deaths continued to rise despite anti-measles steps being taken by the provincial authorities. Anti-measles measure adopted by the provincial government was not enough, the judge stated. Later, the court ordered Punjab government to submit a report by July 10. The measles epidemic has firmly gripped the country especially Punjab with most number of death occurring in Lahore According to the Health Department’s statistics reported by a private TV channel, as many as 159 measles cases were brought to the city hospitals in the last 24 hours while measles claimed the lives of 84 children in the last six months.