THARPARKAR – Death toll rate increasing two more infants lost their lives in Tharparkar on Sunday. Death toll reaches to 50 in 17 days
One month old Zeenat in Civil hospital Mithi and four months old in Talqa hospital in Chachro died in drought-hit Thar. More than 80 children are under treatment in different hospitals whereas three have been shifted to civil hospital Mithi as their condition turned critical.
Health department has claimed that four teams have been sent to far flung areas. The plight of children in southern Sindh province highlights the provincial government’s incompetence to deal with the situation. Tharparkar district in the famous Thar Desert spans over 120,000 square miles across the Indo-Pak subcontinent.
Though only 15 per cent of the desert lies in Pakistan, high rates of child mortality largely due to acute malnutrition pose a major challenge to the local authorities, humanitarian organizations and civil society groups working in the area.
DAILY TIMES.
YEMI.
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