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DADU, Oct 6: World Health Organisation (WHO) representative, Dr Muhammad Anwar Jangwa, on Friday said in a briefing that the 22,000 new-born babies had been dying in the world every year due to tetanus disease.
He said that 60 per cent death cases of the newly-born babies was being reported from Pakistan, India and China every year.
He said that a NGO “save the children US” with the coordination of WHO, UNICEF, and ministry of health government of Pakistan and Japan government had launched a campaign to eliminate tetanus from the country.
He said that in the first phase a drive would be launched in high-risk areas of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Dadu and Thatta districts of Sindh from October 17 to 23 this year.
Teams of the specialist doctors had been sent to these high-risk areas, he added. He said that usually new-born boy children die due to clostridium bacteria. He said health department teams would vaccine the women of 15 to 45 years of age.
He said the WHO was set to eliminate tetanus disease from Pakistan by 2005. He said teams of the export doctors including lady health workers would vaccinate 199,757 women from October 17 to 23, and the high-risk areas had been selected and the teams would work only in these areas, he concluded.
ARRESTED: The Khanoth police arrested three robbers when they were looting passengers at the Deedano Shaheed bus-stand on the Indus Highway on Thursday.
The police raided the bus-stand and after short exchange of fire arrested three robbers, identified as Darwaish Chahwan, Bukhshal Mallah and Gondal Palari.
The police seized one rifle, one shotgun, one TT pistol and a huge quantity of bullets and cartridges from them.
