Drought Hit in Thar Legend Outbreak of Waterborne Diseases (as of Jan 22, 2016) G Basic Health Unit 100 children die after outbreak Government & Private Health Facility ÷Ó Children Hospital of disease in drought-hit Thar Health Facility Government Private Total More than ailing children, meanwhile, have been Basic Health Unit 21 0 21 G Dispensary admitted to different hospitals in the drought-hit Thar district Sanghar Children Hospital 0 1 1 "' Hospitals are facing a shortage of doctors. Only 298 doctors Dispensary 12 0 12 District Headquarter Hospital are available, which includes child specialists and female District Headquarter Hospital 1 0 1 ÷Ó Family Welfare Centre Family Welfare Center 3 0 3 doctors. Meanwhile, over 215 dispensaries remain General Hospitals 1 3 4 K" General Hospital non-functional in Thar's remote villages General Physician 0 14 14 G MITHI: At least nine more children and a mother, who had just given birth to her baby, lost their lives in the drought-hit Thar desert Maternity Home 0 3 3 General Physician on Thursday, raising the death toll to 100 this month.The outbreak of water-borne diseases and malnutrition teamed up with the cold weather caused the children to lose their lives in different areas of the district.Three infants Mithan Bajeer, Bilawal Khokhar Medical Stores 0 2 2 Õ Medical Stores and Ismail Junejo died in Civil Hospital Mithi, while four year-old Rubina and an year-old female child lost their lives in Shadi Rind Rural Health Center 3 0 3 "' Chhachhro and Dabro Junejo Mukhtara villages respectively.Three more infants were reported dead in the Sinhiri Koohi, "K Specialist 0 1 1 Rural Health Centre Nagarparkar and Islamkot villages in the area, along with another infant, who was embraced by death in a private hospital in HOSPITAL Tehsil Headquarter Hospital 1 0 1 Mithi.A mother at a maternity centre in Islamkot died while giving birth to her baby, the infant girl also lost her life soon OF MIR (! Specialist afterwards.The maternity centre was reported to have no doctors present at the facility, while only four lady doctors were "on- HASSAN Veterinary 0 2 2 call".Meanwhile, Tharprkar Deputy Commissioner Khuda Dino Shoro chaired a meeting attended by officials of the provincial health Total 42 26 68 department, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and members of the civil society at his office.Shoro directed the concerned Dahli "' Tehsil Headquarter Hospital functionaries to ensure proper health facilities in all towns and remote villages of the district by providing "medicines and other healthcare services" to all the people indiscriminately and without regard to political affiliations.He said that most of the children !_ Veterinary being brought to hospitals were suffering from diarrhoea, pneumonia and other water-borne diseases.Members of the civil society along with the Thar Bar Council have demanded that the government should declare a state of emergency in the region and Road dispatch specialist medical teams to the remote areas to combat the outbreak.They also demanded that the federal government "' should take notice of the alarming situation in Thar.The Thar region of Sindh, which has climatic and ecological conditions similar to Tehsil Boundary the Indian state of Rajasthan’s portion of Thar, faces severe droughts for two to three years in every 10-year cycle.Earlier this Umerkot RHC month, Sindh health secretary Saeed Ahmed Mangejo, who visited Civil Hospital Mithi and other health units, told journalists that KHEENSAR Creation Date: Jan 22, 2016 the Sindh government had taken notice of the deaths of the children in Thar and was focusing on providing the health units with Projection/Datum: WGS 84 Geographic medicines and other facilities to curb the spread of diseases.He had announced that the annual budget for the hospital would be doubled, from Rs14 million to Rs28m, adding that he had increased funds of other health units, which would be released within the Page Size: A3 next six months.On another occasion, Provincial food minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah while visiting the affected children at G ¯ hospitals in Mithi said the Sindh government was "fully committed to provide maximum facilities" in the health units of the drought- MITHRIO 0 25 50 hit desert.He added that the Thar Development Authority, envisaged and drafted by the Sindh government earlier after the deaths SOTHER Kilometers of the children in 2014, would be formed soon to develop proper infrastructure and civic facilities in the district and improve living G DISPENSARY I N D I A BHU G 0 RATAN JO TAR KANKIO 30 "' DISPENSARY 330 RHC CHACHRO ChachroG BHU 60 G 300 BHU WAHOORI Mirpurkhas G RARLI BHU CHACHI GAJOOG G G BHAGISAL BHAKUO 90 DALAN-JO-TAR DISPENSARY 270 G DISPENSARY DISPENSARY +92.51.282.0449/835.9288|[email protected] BHU GOGASERG All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2016 BHU www.alhasan.com G AAMRIO BHU Mithi G TOBHARIO VAKRIO DISCLAIMER: G DISPENSARY BHU MOOKAMÕ DUFFUR G ALL RIGHTS RESERVED G "K BHU G G!(G÷ÓG This product is the sole property of ALHASAN SYSTEMS VERHARI "'Õ÷Ó!_GGGGG MITHRIO G [www.alhasan.com] - A Knowledge Management, Business DISPENSARY GORVARI DISPENSARYG G DHQ THAR BHATTI ÷Ó"'G÷Ó Islamkot Psychology Modeling, and Publishing Company. 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