Drought Hit in Thar Legend Outbreak of Waterborne Diseases (as of Feb 14, 2016) G Basic Health Unit 190 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 Sanghar Basic Health Unit 21 0 21 G Dispensary admitted to different hospitals in the drought-hit Thar district Children Hospital 0 1 1 "' Dispensary 12 0 12 District Headquarter Hospital Hospitals are facing a shortage of doctors. Only 298 doctors District Headquarter Hospital 1 0 1 ÷Ó Family Welfare Centre are available, which includes child specialists and female 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: The ongoing human tragedy of deaths of children in Thar shows no signs of abating, despite Maternity Home 0 3 3 General Physician tall claims by the government that it has provided the best healthcare facilities, as eight more babies died of malnutrition and waterborne diseases over the past two days.Four children died on Saturday Medical Stores 0 2 2 Õ Medical Stores and as many died a day before. Of them, a six-month-old baby Kavita and two other newborn babies Rural Health Center 3 0 3 "' died at the Mithi Civil Hospital and five-month-old Pirbhu died at rural health centre in Islamkot on Specialist 0 1 1 Rural Health Centre Saturday.On Friday, a minor girl Rasheeda who was discharged from a government hospital in Kaloi "K HOSPITAL town died before reaching home, six-month-old Achhi Bheel died of pneumonia in Dhandi village Tehsil Headquarter Hospital 1 0 1 OF MIR (! near Islamkot, two-year-old Shahnaz of Sanbhayani village near Chhachhro died on her way to a Veterinary 0 2 2 Specialist HASSAN hospital and a newborn baby girl died of pneumonia near Dahli town.The death toll, since Jan 1, has Total 42 26 68 "' risen to over 190 children, according to information gathered by journalists from parents, villagers Dahli Tehsil Headquarter Hospital and elected local bodies representatives. Dr Mohammad Iqbal Bhurgari, civil surgeon at the Mithi Civil Hospital, claimed that only 44 children !_ Veterinary had died in January and 16 more in the current month at the hospital.Asked about the fate of more than 80 children the hospital referred to other cities, Dr Bhurgari said he had no information whether Road they survived or died.Tharparkar DHO Dr Arjun Kumar said that 66 children had died at the hospitals of Mithi, Nagarparkar and Chhachhro while over 22,000 children had so far been brought to Umerkot "' Tehsil Boundary hospitals since Jan 1.Many villagers complained that the government had not yet taken any step to RHC open dispensaries in their areas.According to HANDS, an NGO, mortality rate remained unchanged KHEENSAR Creation Date: Feb 14, 2016 as Tharparkar entered its fourth consecutive year of drought.HANDS CEO Dr Shaikh Tanweer Projection/Datum: WGS 84 Geographic Ahmed and Nadeem Ahmed Wagan told journalists here the situation contributed to poor health of women and children, which was taking a heavy toll on their lives.The NGO has prepared an Page Size: A3 analytical report titled “Tharparkar Situation Analysis — January 2016” which assesses the current G ¯ situation and state of vulnerability of drought affected communities in Tharparkar, and changes over MITHRIO 0 25 50 the time since it carried out the first situation assessment in March 2014, he said.Marvi Memon, SOTHER Kilometers chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and minister of state, said at a meet- DISPENSARY G I N D I A 0 the-press event at Badin Press Club on Saturday that children were dying in Thar because of BHU G RATAN JO TAR malnutrition and Sindh government’s callousness.She said that she was going to Thar to express KANKIO 30 condolences to the BISP beneficiary families on the death of their children and would then submit a "' DISPENSARY 330 report to the prime minister on the alarming situation in the desert area.She said that prime minister RHC and the federal minister for finance had talked to the World Food Program, which would soon initiate CHACHRO ChachroG activities in Thar to help the government reduce malnutrition among the poor population.She said G BHU 60 that to save people from malnutrition BISP had increased basic stipend of families from Rs4,500 to WAHOORI 300 Rs4,700. 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