THARPARKAR – Two more children have died this week after an outbreak of water borne and food shortage diseases hit Tharparkar, raising the death toll to 165 since the beginning of January.
At the same time, more than 95 children are under treatment in different hospitals and more than 20 children have died of malnutrition since the start of January.
Lack of the government response, lack of health care facilities and scarcity of water are amongst the major reasons for the deaths in Thar. On the other hand, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has constituted a two-member Judicial Commission headed by Justice (retired) Ghulam Sawar Korai to explore the situation in Thar.
“I have improved health services, upgraded basic health units, dispensaries and taluka hospitals by providing equipment and have doubled the budget for medicines,” Qaim Ali stated.
On the other hand, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari last month formed a committee consisting of Information Adviser Maula Bux Chandio and Food Minister Nasir Shah to look into the situation of Thar.
While briefing the media, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan said that the death of children in Tharparkar is a tragedy. Sindh government’s slackness in matter of deaths of malnourished children in Thar is shameful and unforgivable.
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