Pakistan 2018: Malnutrition & Disease continue to kill children in Tharparkar, 380 fatalities

[Ronan Kelly]

Link to 2017 thread: https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum...to-kill-children-in-tharparkar-172-fatalities

6 more infants die in Thar due to viral infections and malnutrition
Hanif Samoon March 31, 2018
At least six infants have died over the last 24 hours in Sindh's Tharparker district due to viral infections and malnutrition, hospital sources told Dawn.com on Saturday.

The infants breathed their last in Mithi Civil Hospital and other government hospitals in the desert region, raising the toll to 47 this month and more than 155 this year alone, said sources privy to the health department.

The children were admitted to government-run hospitals for medical attention by their parents who complained of lack of facilities, including life-saving drugs.
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1398722


Posted on March 31, 2018
CJ rejects Sindh Govt report on deaths of kids in Thar

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The Frontier Post

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday rejected the Sindh Government report regarding the deaths of children on Tharpakar area of the province.

On the outset of proceedings Secretary Health presented a report which stated that most of the deaths have occurred due to low weight, fever and diarrhea. The report further informed that marriages in early ages and giving birth to more children were also of the causes. Doctors also don?t want to g Mithi, the report stated.

Chief Justice while rejecting the report and said the low weight was never the reason.

?We don?t want to take over, we don?t want to intervene but we are compelled to take notice due to inefficiency of the authorities,? justice Nisar said.
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https://thefrontierpost.com/cj-rejects-sindh-govt-report-deaths-kids-thar-2/

 

[Ronan Kelly]

5 more babies die in Tharparkar
May 31, 201818

Karachi

Five more children died in Tharparkar of malnutrition, taking the death toll to 250 in the past five months. Sixteen children have died in this one week in the desert region that borders India.
Tharparkar is one of Pakistan?s poorest districts spread over nearly 20,000 square kilometres in the country?s southeast.
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https://pakobserver.net/5-more-babies-die-in-tharparkar/

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Thar continues to bleed
By News Desk - June 8, 201821
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THAR is a resource rich district of the country but continues to bleed due to the sheer negligence of relevant quarters over the last many years. Death has become cheaper there. Four more infants died of malnutrition and disease in Thar district the other day taking the death toll this year alone to two hundred and sixty three.
We understand the situation is far worse in the area as local health officials have strongly been barred from sharing any details with the media about the deaths yet the fact of the matter is that successive federal and provincial governments had offered nothing to the Tharis except promises which were never fulfilled.
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https://pakobserver.net/thar-continues-to-bleed/

 

[Ronan Kelly]

SC constitutes commission on children?s deaths in Thar
The Newspaper's Staff ReporterUpdated June 21, 2018 Facebook Count

KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a commission to conduct an inquiry into causes of death of eight infants in Tharparkar district, where the level of malnutrition remains high due to frequent drought.

Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar directed the commission, headed by Additional Inspector General of police Sanaullah Abbasi, to submit a report to the court in two months.

Heading a three-judge bench at the SC?s Karachi registry, the chief justice also directed the authorities concerned to appoint doctors and paramedical staff to vacant posts across Sindh and make the non-functional Sindh Drugs Testing Labo?ratory operational in two months.

All the appointments should be made through the Sindh Public Service Comm?ission in two months.
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1415081/sc-constitutes-commission-on-childrens-deaths-in-thar

News: Mithi: Do not kill the innocent people of Thar, more than three children died
Comment 17 hours ago

Mithi: Do not kill death of innocent children in Thar, more than three children died, more than three children have died.

Health facilities became unstable, tenure situations worsened,

More than three children died due to food and livestock coating in the Civil Hospital Mithi, the number of months of the month was increased.

Pharmacies include six months of lunch, Osman of fifteen days and a newborn baby.

Health facilities in the district's all-sized hospitals became increasing due to tenuous situations.

Due to adverse conditions, the people were getting very upset by drinking water shortage.

However, the Government of Sindh could not even get the help of the declared food crop, which led to forced forced thousands of families to go missing.

At the other hand, 80 lakh chopis got found in the boot bank due to eradicating work in Thar
https://awamiawaz.com/293709/

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Committee Investigating Children Deaths in Thar to Start Work Today
By Ainy Ather - July 4, 20180143

The commission created by CJP Justice Saqib Nisar to investigate the causes of children death in Thar district has arrived in the affected areas today.
Last month, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar had ordered the formation of commission after the rise in death of children in the district due to high level of malnutrition caused by drought.

A meeting under the supervision of Inspector General of Police for Gilgit-Baltistan Sanaullah Abbasi was held today where officials from the Sindh health department were in attendance.
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https://enews.hamariweb.com/pakista...-children-deaths-in-thar-to-start-work-today/

News: Mouth: More than 7 children died due to food
2 days ago comment

Mithi: More than 7 children died due to food coat fats and other facilities including food and food, in 24 hours more than 7 children were killed in the war.

Due to lack of other facilities including medicines and foods in the civil hospital, more than seven children died in 24 hours, admitted the hospital administration medicines.

Fifteen-year-old children, including two-month-old men, and seven children including three-month-old couples, and the number of months of the month of the month, the number of months of the month's festivals was 17.

According to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court's head committee headed by Sanaullah Abbasi, the suspect who did not get treatment in the Civil Hospital Mithi, has denied the transfer of the hospital to Hospital Hospital Hyderabad.

On behalf of the patient, Dadli and her heritage said that the hospital administration has been confiscated on the complaint of not being cured, he was raped in the hospital, but who is not listening.
https://awamiawaz.com/299797/

 

[Ronan Kelly]

More deaths in Thar
The Tharparkar region has faced erratic rainfall this year, contributing to the drought situation that has persisted in the desert area for many years. According to hospital sources, the overall death toll for children in Mithi this year alone stands at over 380. Over the last few days it has risen following the deaths of seven infants who died as a result of the outbreak of viral diseases combined with the ongoing malnutrition factor. Currently over 70 children have been admitted to six health facilities in the district; the children were suffering from various infections. The lack of potable water and contamination of the scarce resource of available water contributes to these diseases. As has been noticed in the past, despite government?s claims there has been a failure to develop a policy to alleviate the sufferings of the people of Thar.
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/354424-more-deaths-in-thar