HYDERABAD: Chairman Sindh Taraqi-pasand Party (STP) Dr Qadir Magsi has said that outbreak of skin, malaria, dengue and gastro diseases was being reported in lower Sindh areas following recent rains, and provincial government had not taken required measures to contain its spread.

In a statement issued on Saturday, he said that people in entire villages were said to be affected by these diseases and they were left high and dry by Sindh health department. He said that hospitals do not have medicines for patients and added that mosquito nets received from donor agencies also land in the autaqs (guest room) of local waderas, and they were not judiciously distributed among villagers.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2022