April 02, 2008	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 24, 1429

KHAIRPUR, April 1: Three tuberculosis patients of a same family including a young girl, died in the last week of March when TB week was being observed.This was disclosed by a delegation of Soomar Mallah village led by comrade Mir Abdul Karim Mallah on Tuesday while talking to reporters in Kumb.

The delegation further said the TB patients Rustam Ali Mallah, his son Hubdar Ali and daughter Gulnar died during last week of March. They added that 80 more persons of their village including male, female and children had been found positive with the same disease.

They said they had appealed to district administration and district health department to send team of doctors for medical check-up of people of Soomar Mallah village as they feared more may be infected and that they be provided medical treatment.

They said no medical team had as yet, visited the village. The majority were living below the poverty line and unable to visit big cities for medical check-up or treatment.

STUDENTS UNION: Students from Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur took out rallies on Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s announcement to lift ban from the students’ unions, on Tuesday. They raised slogans in favour of the prime minister.

They marched in the campus area. Students’ organisations in the university as well as other institutions of the district had geared up their activities after the announcement. Many male and female students had formed new units of students’ organisations for union elections in SALU and other degree colleges of the district.

The students in main degree colleges of the district had resumed activities.

Civil society activists including Mir Munawar Talpur, Shakir Shah and Amjad Lashari welcomed the lifting of ban on students’ unions.