LARKANA:A two-year boy, Noman, son of Abdul Latif Mirani, died of measles in Chdial Shah Muhalla in Naundero on Saturday while six other children are also suffering from the same disease in the same house.
Those suffering from the disease include Shayan, 2, Mahnoor, 4, Junaid, and Haseeb, 3, all kids of Ghulam Nabi Mirani; Javeria,3, daughter of Ajeeb Ali, Faiza, 2, daughter of Mujeeb Mirani.
In this connection, Abdul Latif Mirani told newsmen that he admitted his son Noman three days ago in Paeds Medicine Department of Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) from where doctors sent him back yesterday to home as saying that his son’s life could not be saved and his son expired at night.
Parents continued to bring their ailing children of measles at the CMCH Paeds Medicine Department in Larkana and Government Hospital in Naundero despite the fact that district administration accompanied by District Health Officials inaugurated World Immunization Week on 24th April during which vaccination drive was to be launched across the district but it seemed that due to poor resources and mismanagement the required result could not be achieved and affected cases are increasing day by day across the district despite tall claims of immunization.
Credible sources said that three Isolation Wards of three Units of CMCH Paeds Medicine Department consisting of total 15 beds (5-bed each Unit) are full to their capacity and other patients are being kept at general wards away from other child patients so that they are kept safe.