MITHI, Feb 14: The Nazim of taluka council, Mithi, and the council members have expressed their concern over the discontinuation of insecticide spray for a couple of years in Mithi.

Talking to Dawn here on Thursday, Faqir Sher Mohammad Bilalani, Kanjimal Rathore, Nazim and Naib Nazim, taluka council, Mithi and other members, pointed out that though the health department had scores of employees for the malaria control programme and it was their responsibility to carry on the spray programme, they did not do so for the last few years.

They said that this had created many problems for the people and the district had become a breeding place for mosquitoes, flies and other insects. Tharis were exposed to various diseases, they added.

The members of the council complained that though the issue of non- spray was raised before the functionaries of the government on several occasion, but nothing was done to solve the issue.

They urged the district Nazim, district coordination officer and the authorities of health department to take serious notice of the alarming increase in the population of mosquitoes, flies and other insects.

They demanded of the authorities concerned to take precautionary measures, and launch spray campaign to avoid a possible out break of epidemics in the district.

They warned that if necessary steps were not taken by the authorities concerned, malaria, diarrhoea, gastro-enteritis and other diseases would spread across the district.