LARKANA: A team of doctors led by Director, Health Services, Larkana Region, Dr. Rustom Bhutto, visited Rais Bhambho Khan Chandio village in Kambar-Shahdadkot district and obtained 41 samples for COVID-19 PCR testing after reports that six people have died of the coronavirus in the village.
The team which also included District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. Iqbal Jagirani and others found that five persons including a woman had died in the same village which include Haji Fateh Mughmmad, 70 year with illness since a week, Haji Babu, 70 years. He was paralysed and was on bed rest for two years. Sain Rakhio, 70 years chronic liver disease and COPD, Muhammad Paryal, Cardiac disease with EF ratio 30% and Zuhra Chandio, COVID-19 positive. She was residing at Shaikh Zayed Colony, Larkana and remained admitted at ICU of Chandka Medical College Hospital but she was buried at her native village Bhambho Khan Chandio.
This was revealed in a letter written by the DHO Dr. Jagirani to Director General, Health Services, Sindh, Hyderabad and copies of which have also been sent to the Health Minister and Secretary.
He further wrote that deputy commissioner, assistant commissioner, Mukhtiarkar, Mirokhan also visited the village and monitored the sampling activity.
The DHO claimed that there was no active case in the village, however, samples of 41 villagers have been collected for COVID-19 testing adding deceased persons were not tested for COVID-19 virus as per the information provided to him by the notables of the village.
Both Dr. Bhutto and Dr. Jagirani were contacted to know as to how many positive cases have been detected out of 41 collected samples but they did not attend the calls.