The Killers!!

By Huda Ayaz

Our government is not praised with good words in this very era. One line that I go through very often on TV channels and newspapers is that “The government failed…” The government failed to do this, the government failed to that, etc etc. And recently I came across with the same line in a newspaper that says, Government has failed to get control over the dengue fever in Pakistan.

With all the wanted criminals, suicide bombers, thieves, drug dealers, etc, dengue’s mosquito is also in the spotlight. This tiny black and white stripped creature with greenish wings scared the hell out of humans, affected more than 6,000 people of Pakistan, including myself as well.

My cousin, who is a doctor, told me that patients of dengue fever always remember the particular mosquito that transmitted dengue in them, which I took as a joke because there are plenty of mosquitoes keep biting you everyday. Funny as it sounds, I do start believing this fact when I was bitten by IT!! and sadly, I was bitten by IT in my extra-green-university.

With so much grassing and dire sanitary condition of our university especially after heavy rains in summer vacations, bizarre insects, hideous bugs and all weird sorts of mosquitoes are easily be seen within our varsity’s premises. Result in rise of various diseases, which are flagging our healths.

Teachers and students are the pitiable sufferers, and it can be said with certainty that half of this fever is spreading in Karachi because of our university’s darn greenery. Money that is expending largely over building new departments, should also be use to enhance gardens, and for cutting off the extra splurge of greenery. That would surely help us to dominant over these mosquitoes and bugs.