Tando Muhammad Khan: In the past month at least 12 cases of gastro have been reported there, 10 of them involving youngsters.
In the previous month, local hospitals handled 7600 gastro patients overall, according to the administration. They continued, listing 10 of the 12 victims as minors.
Five children and six other people, including at least six more who were at flood rescue camps in the Khairpur district, died of gastroenteritis on September 18. Meanwhile, in Garhi Khairo, amid the flooding, a patient with gastroenteritis died.
More than a million people in Sindh’s flood-affected areas have been infected with a variety of ailments, including gastroenteritis, according to a disturbing report from the Sindh Health Department.
Asifa, age 8, and Wakeela, age 2, both passed away from gastroenteritis in the Kotdiji taluka of Khairpur. Two children and a woman perished in flood camps in the district’s Faiz Ganj and Nara talukas, while an unidentified three-year-old girl died in Thari Mirwah.
The majority of the doctors at Garhi Khairo hospital had been missing during the flood disaster, it should be noted. According to a hospital source, there are 16 doctors altogether at the facility, but only three to four of them are currently on duty out of the remaining 13 medical staff members.
