DADU, June 11: EDO (health) Dr Dhani Bux Thebo has said that during a joint survey by surveillance teams of the WHO and the district health department, about 600 measles patients aged under five have been registered in government hospitals in the district.

He was speaking at a review meeting at the taluka hospital Mehar on Saturday.

WHO surveillance officer Dr Zahid Khuhro, Dr Qurban Bhurgari and Dr Shahid Shaikh were present on the occasion.

The EDO said that doctors should take efforts to control hepatitis B and taluka health officers should form doctors teams so that hepatitis-B vaccine should be provided to children at their doors.

Dr Qurban Bhurgari said that a polio drive would be started in the first week of July.

He said that 48,195 children of one year age would be vaccinated against hepatitis-B.

SNF: Sindh National Front general-secretary Gul Mohammad Jakhrani has said that the SNF will launch a drive against allocation in budget for construction of dams.

He was talking to reporters in Jamshoro on Saturday.

He said that activists of nationalist parties were arrested and law-enforce-ment agencies were torturing them to change their loyalty.