Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Eight flood victims dead in 10 days
our correspondent
Saturday, October 08, 2011
MIRPURKHAS: Eight flood victims, including four women, were reported to have died due to non-availability of medical assistance here in last ten days.
At a relief camp set up in the Naukot Fort, five persons, identified as Jannat, 45, Jaffar, 50, Arab, 55, Munnawar, 18, and eight-year-old girl Sindhu, died of Malaria and waterborne diseases. All belonged to the Solangi Tribe. The deaths were reported on Friday.
The families of the deceased revealed that those died first had a high fever and then sore throat, and in two to three days succumbed to the severity of these ailments. In addition to the above deaths, two women and a man died at the civil hospital?s main gate here due to non -availability of any medical assistance as even the Emergency Department of the hospital is totally non-functional and submerged in knee-deep rainwater.
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our correspondent
Saturday, October 08, 2011
MIRPURKHAS: Eight flood victims, including four women, were reported to have died due to non-availability of medical assistance here in last ten days.
At a relief camp set up in the Naukot Fort, five persons, identified as Jannat, 45, Jaffar, 50, Arab, 55, Munnawar, 18, and eight-year-old girl Sindhu, died of Malaria and waterborne diseases. All belonged to the Solangi Tribe. The deaths were reported on Friday.
The families of the deceased revealed that those died first had a high fever and then sore throat, and in two to three days succumbed to the severity of these ailments. In addition to the above deaths, two women and a man died at the civil hospital?s main gate here due to non -availability of any medical assistance as even the Emergency Department of the hospital is totally non-functional and submerged in knee-deep rainwater.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=71444&Cat=2