Provincial health authorities are lax in their responsibility of ensuring that lives are kept safe.
ISLAMABAD: Cholera and measles outbreaks are reported to have killed dozens of children and affected several thousand in upper Sindh districts including Jacobabad, Kashmore/Kandhkot, Shikarpur, Ghotki, Larkana and Qambar/Shahdadkot. The primary cause for this is a lack of clean drinking water and unhygienic living conditions. The fact that such deadly diseases keep appearing in this region again and again is proof that the provincial health authorities are lax in their responsibility of ensuring that the lives of the local population are kept safe from health hazards. Apart from an effective and comprehensive immunisation campaign, the provincial and municipal authorities need to ensure that the supply of drinking water to the people living in these towns and cities is of a standard that humans can drink without falling seriously ill.
Hashim Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, December 27th, 2012.
