The province is seeing an increase in the number of malaria cases in every region this month, especially in Lower Sindh, prompting the Minister of Health to direct concerned officials to prepare a concrete action plan. province to combat mosquito-borne diseases and establish a separate service for malaria cases. the patients.
Official figures – often disputed by independent health experts as just the tip of the iceberg – show that 286,317 cases of high fever were reported in health facilities across the province in this month.
Among them, 64,519 patients tested positive for malaria, an increase of 31% from the previous month, recording 49,112 cases.
Provincial Health Director-General, Dr. Irshad Memon, has linked the increase in malaria cases to stagnant flood water (in some districts) and poor sanitation in the rest of the province.
In a statement released today by his spokesman, Abdul Rasheed Channa, the minister ordered that the number of malaria cases be “under control within a week”. Noting that such cases have increased in Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Larkana and Sukkur areas, Judge Baqar ordered the health and interior departments of these regions to take ‘necessary measures’ to control the spread of infection.
While ordering the Ministry of Health to launch an anti-malaria campaign, the Minister also ordered the deployment of all public hospitals to ensure anti-malaria services and the supply of related medicines.
The Acting Minister ordered the Home Office to carry out mosquito repellent spraying in various areas while the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board was asked to improve the sanitation mechanism.
