25 children die of measles within a week in Sindh

Haleem urged the people to protest in front of Bilawal's long march to record their discontentment against PPP

KARACHI:

Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh, Monday expressed grief over the death of 25 children within a week due to measles in the constituency of Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah.

In a statement issued, Haleem Adil Sheikh said that the widespread presence of measles and the increasing number of casualties in Manchar Lake and surrounding areas indicate that measles has turned into an epidemic disease, and children in the area were losing lives because of a lack of proper arrangements by Sindh health department.

While holding CM Sindh responsible for the appalling situation said that children are dying due to the incompetence and ineptitude of Murad Ali Shah. The entire Sindh province has been handed over for experimentation to a person who was unable to take care of even his home town, he bemoaned.

People of the constituency should hold a long march against their MPA Murad Ali Shah, who has proved to be corrupt and exponent of the destruction of Sindh, Haleem Adil Sheikh, said alleging that children and citizens of Sindh are being killed under the patronage of Murad Ali Shah. If the Health Card facility was available in Sindh, the poor people could get treatment from any major hospital.

However, the PPP Sindh government obstructed the public welfare initiative of the PTI government in Sindh on political grounds as PPP has always been against general welfare schemes, said Haleem Adil Sheikh, adding that he would visit Murad Shah's constituency to meet and console the aggrieved people there.

Haleem urged the people of Sindh to protest in front of Bilawal's long march to record their discontentment against PPP's atrocities and abuses and to achieve their usurped rights.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 22^nd, 2022.