DADU, March 12: The secretary for health, Sindh, Khalid Latif Chaudhry, said here on Tuesday that 7,000 cases of skin disease Leishmaniasis were registered at different hospitals of the district.
He was talking to newsmen at the Sehwan Taluka Hospital.
The health secretary said that 30 to 40 cases of the skin disease were reported in the previous years but now owing to biting of the sand fly, the disease had spread in Dadu and some other districts also.
He informed that the Sindh government had released Rs4 million to control Leishmaniasis and added that spray would be carried out in the affected areas before April 15.
The health secretary said that teams of the specialist doctors of skin disease from the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, had visited the affected areas and had taken the biopsy of the patients.
He disclosed that the Sindh government had provided 10,000 vials of antimony injections for treatment of the disease.
Speaking about the problems of the hospitals, the secretary for health said that the equipment required for operation system would be provided to the hospitals and ambulances would be provided to the basic health units and health centres in the far-flung areas of Sindh.
IRRIGATION: On the directives of the president, the federal government has released Rs200 million to set up the new system in the irrigation department to control the wastage of the irrigation water.
This was said by the secretary for irrigation, Sindh, Mir Mohammad Parhiar, while talking to the growers, Nazims, Naib Nazims and councillors at Johi town on Tuesday.
He said that the desilting and repair work of doors of the canals would be initiated in first phase while remodelling of the canals would be initiated in the second phase.
Mr Parhiar said that the illegal lift machines would be removed from the waterways and canals within three days and the tail-enders would be given their due share of water.
He warned that action would be taken against those irrigation officials who were found in selling water.
KILLED: A wagon driver was killed and 11 passengers were injured in an accident at Aral Wah on Sehwan-Dadu part of the Indus Highway the other day.