February 6, 2002	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 22, 1422

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LARKANA, Feb 5: A team of doctors that is conducting survey on the outbreak of a skin disease leishmanisis in Larkana district visited village Joonani Bangla near Warah on Monday.

Dr Qaid, the emergency medical officer, East Mediterranean region, World Health Organization (WHO), with Dr Farooque Rehman Soomro and others found 350 positive cases of leishmanisis in the village with a population between 3,000 4,000 people.

While talking to Dawn later, Dr Soomro termed the presence of such a large number of the patients in a single village alarming.

The team has selected three more villages, Gul Buriro, Sahib Khan Tunio and Ahmadi Tunia, in Warah taluka to check sporadically the spread of epidemic in the area, sources said.

Another team is busy collecting tissue samples in the affected areas of Dadu district to use them in scientific investigation on the disease.

Both teams would prepare reports in a week and the reports would be sent to the high ups of the WHO, the NIH and Sindh Health department for action.

FIRING: A policeman and his rivals traded fire near the district police officer (DPO)’s residence here on Monday but fortunately no one was injured.

A policeman Talib Lashari and his opponents, Aziz, Asghar and others, gathered in DPO office to resolve a dispute.

When they came out and arrived near the DPO house, they exchanged fire which created panic in the area.

The policeman fled and took shelter in the nearby DIG house.

The ASP arrived at the scene with police force but did not find the policeman in DIG house.

Later he lodged FIR against Aziz, Asghar and Gulshan with Rehmatpur police station. Nobody has been arrested so far.