HYDERABAD: Considering a number of cases reported in different districts of Sindh, the district administration of Hyderabad has decided to launch a campaign to create awareness about extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in the province.

In this regard, an awareness week will be observed regarding precautionary information about XDR typhoid.

Presiding over a meeting at Shahbaz Building on Friday to review arrangements for the awareness week, Hyder­abad Deputy Commissioner Aijaz Ali Shah told the participants that the week would start from March 4 when a walk would be arranged from the commissioner office to Hyderabad.

Awareness sessions would be held in different government and private schools and colleges where doctors and health department staff would deliver lectures on health issues regarding typhoid.

An awareness walk from the local press club to the sessions court would be staged while a similar event would be held from the civil hospital to Market.

Messages about typhoid and health issues would be promoted among people through Friday sermons by religious leaders and on the sixth day, a seminar followed by a press conference would be held.

The DC said panaflex banners would be displayed at public places regarding preventive measures and pamphlets to be distributed among people.

Liaquat University Hospital medical superintendent Dr Mubeen Memon said people should keep houses and cities clean; they should take care of health and hygiene issues.

He said every individual in society needed to pay serious attention to such issues, stressing the need for the media to play its role to promote health education in society.

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2019