MIRPURKHAS, Feb 14: A high-level meeting held at Karachi on Friday decided to distribute anti-malaria tablets through lady health workers to tackle an outbreak of the disease in the district.
The meeting announced to hold seminars in Umerkot and Mirpurkhas towns to create an awareness of the disease.
EDO health Dr Fazal Illahi Yousfani told this correspondent that no anti-mosquito spray was conducted after the last year's rains and that was the cause of malaria outbreak.
Dr Yousfani said a team of high officials and experts would arrive at Mirpurkhas on Tuesday to review the situation.
Earlier, the Sindh chief minister had asked the district health authorities to provide treatment to patients admitted to the government hospitals.
Civil surgeon Dr Saleem Raza Memon said a large number of affected patients from the rural area was admitted to the civil hospital.
He said the hospital administration had collected details of patients and number of deaths due to the cerebral malaria.
POWER CONSUMERS: Power consumers have complained that Hesco authorities have been issuing detection bills to maintain their recovery.
Some consumers Nadeem, Sajan, Abdul Rasheed, Afaq Ahmed, Furqan Ahmed and Aijaz Panhwar told the newsmen on Friday that Hesco officials doing this with connivance of their lower staff.
They said rules and regulations were also not observed while issuing detection bills.
SUICIDE: A woman, Sajida, wife of Alam Khaskheli, committed suicide by hanging herself from a fan in Roshanabad village in the jurisdiction of Jhuddo police station on Thursday.
Her body was brought to the Jhuddo hospital for autopsy.
STRANGULATED: A woman was strangulated to death by her husband and in-laws in the jurisdiction of Umerkot police station on Thursday.
Moomal was strangulated by her husband Sharif Bheel, brother- in-law Toto Bheel and father-in-law Somar Bheel over some domestic problem.
Her body was brought to the taluka hospital Umerkot for autopsy. The Police lodged a murder case on the complaint of Gulab Bheel, brother of the woman against the three accused.
DROWNED: A minor girl, Aqsa, drowned in a watercourse near Jarwari minor in Deh Padhro on Thursday.
Aqsa, daughter of Aziz Panhwar, fell in the water course near Kamal Panhwar village and drowned.
Her body was recovered from the Jarwari minor.