RATODERO:The President, PPP Women Wing and MPA Faryal Talpur reached Ratodero on Saturday and visited screening camp at Taluka Hospital after reporting of large number of HIV positive cases in her constituency.
While talking to newsmen, she said 54 quack clinics have been sealed and notices have been issued to 26 more.
She said Sindh Government has been asked to establish camps at those areas/ villages where HIV positive cases have surfaced. She said they will try to provide required drugs to the affected people at Ratodero.
She said at the very outset 15 cases were reported but so far over 3400 people have been screened out of which 128 have been detected HIV positive which include children and women.
She said it is the outcome of unlawful quack clinics’ bad practice and also negligence of illegal laboratories and blood banks. She was accompanied by Nisar Khuhro and other party leaders.
Meanwhile, eight more HIV positive cases were found at the screening camp on Saturday which includes three children and two women bringing the total HIV positive cases to 128.
District Health Officer (DHO), Larkana, Dr. Abdul Rahman Baloch, was contacted several times but he is not attending phone since last three days to know the result of a team of five doctors arrived from Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Karachi and reported to him for the same purpose of HIV cases.
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