SWAT: Gastroenteritis claims 2 lives

Published October 2, 2006

SWAT, Oct 1: Two people died and dozens others were hospitalized following outbreak of gastroentritis in the Bahrein village on Sunday.

A four-year-old girl, daughter of one Shaukat, and an elderly man, Qurban, died while dozens others were admitted to a hospital.

More casualties are feared due to mismanagement, lack of proper medicines and staff in local medical centres.—Online