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BADIN, May 9: The district council at its Saturday's session called on the Sindh government to take measures and plug breaches in the Left Bank Outfall Drain before the advent of monsoon.
The council deplored that the breaches of last year had not been plugged yet and demanded that immediate measures should be adopted to ensure that devastation caused by the LBOD during the last monsoon did not repeat itself this year.
The district council also demanded that the drain network should be redesigned to solve the problem on permanent basis. The session expressed concern over an inordinate delay in payment of compensation for losses sustained by the victims of last year's rain and flood.
The members demanded Rs2 million for each union council from the district government funds.
THALASSAEMIA: District Nazim Kamal Chang has said that the district government will provide a 12000 square feet plot and Rs1.2 million for setting up a thalassaemia centre in Badin.
He was speaking at a seminar organised by the Thalassaemia Care Citizens Community Board here on Saturday to mark the International Thalassaemia Day. He emphasized the need for public awareness to save children from the disease and assured of cooperation by the district government in this regard.
MPA Dr Sikandar Ali Mandhro said that the thalassaemia centre would cost Rs4.8 million and appealed to citizens for blood donations for the patients of thalassaemia. He also urged the people to adopt precautionary measures against the blood disease by getting their blood screened before marriage.
Other speakers included pathologist Dr Mohammad Haroon Memon, Iqbal Kashif Arain, Ashfaq Ahmed Memon and child specialist Dr Ali Nawaz Yousfani. Earlier, a procession was taken out to spread awareness about the blood disease.
