DADU, Feb 27: A two-day free eye camp organized by the World Health Organization's Basic Development Needs project concluded in the Bubak village here on Sunday.

Talking to journalists the Bubak health centre, the manager of the project, Manchhar, Dr Khadim Hussain Lakhair, said a virus spread in the lake area due to lack of proper food and sweet water would affect the health of local people, especially children.

He called for providing clean drinking water and food to inhabitants of the Manchhar area to control the spread of the virus. He maintained that local people were more prone to diseases because their resistance power had decreased due to under nutrition and use of contaminated water.

Dr Lakhair said the WHO had donated equipment, medicines and furniture to government-run hospitals in the Manchhar area. He further said 250 hand pumps had also been installed in villages of the lake area to provide sweet drinking water to people.