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Nine more infants die in drought-hit Thar in a day
MITHI: Nine more infants died from complications caused by malnutrition, waterborne diseases and viral infections in drought-hit Thar towns of Mithi, Kaloi and Nagarparkar on Sunday, raising the death toll to 544 this year so far, according to officials.
Seven of the children died in Mithi Civil Hospital where they were brought for treatment from remote villages of the desert region.
Health officials reiterated the government’s line of arguments about unabated deaths of infants and said that most of the children dying in hospitals were underweight, a result of child marriages and lack of birth spacing.
Parents of the victims and those accompanying their ailing children at the hospital complained about lack of healthcare facilities in their villages because of which they had to travel several miles to take their ailing babies to Mithi.
Banks, NGOs, moneylenders warned
Thar SSP Imran Quraishi has warned NGOs, traders and local branches of micro-financing banks to stop recovery of loans from poor Tharis as long as severe drought persists in the desert region.
He said at a press conference at his office on Sunday that lending NGOs and some individuals who dealt in the ugly business of interests had made the lives of poverty-stricken Tharis miserable by first trapping them in the debt and then callously demanding it back despite drought conditions.
Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2018
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Thar be declared capital of Sindh. Sindh gov be moves to thar for 2 yrs.
Where are the followers, supporters and sympathiser of PPP?
They are not listening to the cry of innocent people.
Shame on them.
where is people party.they are blind enough to see the death of children in Sindh .
" Health officials reiterated the argument about deaths of infants because most of the children dying in hospitals were underweight, a result of child marriages and lack of birth spacing." and that is partially true but I think the reason they are underweight is they are starving. Most children die between one and five years not at birth.
@AZAM AKBAR, ........... It is Bilawal Zardari who should be ashamed of his lies.
@AZAM AKBAR, charge zardari with a manslaughter charge for each dead child, let him try to dodge these bullets
@Haani Syed,
Mr. Haani Syed,
But the people praise his English language as he is the only person in Pakistan who knows English.
Are the people not fool?
The performance of Mr. Bilawal Zardari and his party PPP is zero.
But the voters of rural areas of Sindh still cast their votes in favour of this corrupt and cruel party. Alas.
Present govts. must attend to Thar immediately and save lives. Relocate them if necessary.