LEARNING THE HARD WAY, DENGUE EPIDEMIC 2019.

“The job of each generation is to solve more problems thanthey create and to lift up the next generation to be betterthan the last. Repeating the past does neither.”~ LR KnostDengue is an emergent pandemic viral illness[[1, 2] ]. Pakistan has witnessed Dengue epidemic since 1994[[3, 4] ].However this time in 2019, 11941 patients with dengue infection reported to Rawalpindi Medical University (RMU)Allied Hospitals[ [5] ]. This number is much more than theincidence reported before in previous epidemics.During the start of epidemic almost 18000 patients withsuspected dengue reported to RMU and more than 12000were admitted. To handle this burden, emergency was declared at RMU.