Epidemic breaks out in flood-hit villages

MIRPURKHAS:

The Deputy Commissioner of Mirpurkhas, Dr. Rashid Masood Khan has taken immediate action in response to the reported increase in cholera-like disease cases in the village of Haji Sakhi shar located in UC Ghiror Sharif, Taluka Sindhri, on Monday.

According to the Deputy Commissioner, on his instructions, the Assistant Commissioner of Sindhri, Abdul Ghafar Lakhir and the District Health Officer, Dr. Jairamdas, promptly sent a medical team from the health department to the affected village. The medical team set up an emergency camp in Sakhi shar village where they treated a total of 137 patients including 77 men and 60 women. Additionally, 40 children under the age of five were treated for diarrhoea and 70 children above five years of age also received treatment for the same condition. The team also treated six skin disease patients and 35 suspected malaria patients, and immunised 32 children.

The medical team has collected water samples from the village which will now be sent to a laboratory in Karachi for testing.