LARKANA, May 6: A six-member team of the World Health Organization has started studying the trends of spreading the skin disease, Leishmaniasis, in Larkana and Dadu district by setting up a camp in two villages of Warah taluka.

Talking to this correspondent on Sunday, Dr Farooqur Rehman Soomro said that Dr Arif Munir, director of the Malaria Control Programme, National Institute of Health (NIH), was supervising the studies being carried out in Ahmadi Tunia and Junani Sharif villages.

He said that nets had been pitched in the affected houses to trap the Sand Fly and disclosed that so far five Sand Fly had been trapped and sent to the NIH to ascertain as to which species of the Sand Fly causes this skin disease.

It is a nine-month project of the WHO, where Sher Mohammed Solangi, senior scientific officer at the NIH, is coordinating the efforts.

Dr Soomro said that lately, a team of experts, comprising Dr Riadh Ben-Ismail from the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Officer of the WHO in Cairo, Dr Ibraham Mnazava, Dr Philippe Desjevx from the WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Dr Faizullah Kakar, WHO Epidemiologist, Islamabad, had visited Larkana in this context.

The team had decided to conduct studies on the Sand Fly and it hoped that it would open new and specific channel to treat the disease in this belt.

MEDICAL CAMP: A free medical camp was established in Dokri town on Sunday under the auspices of the Al-Falah Social Welfare Organization.