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Pakistan 2014 - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 650 fatalities

Ronan Kelly

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
UN blames health, nutrition issues for Tharparkar deaths
AMIN AHMED

2014-03-22 09:48:22

ISLAMABAD: The main cause of recent deaths in Tharparkar district is a surge in morbidity and mortality rates among children and adults rather than drought in the area, according to UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Timo Pakkala.

In a statement on Friday, Mr Pakkala termed the nutrition crisis in Pakistan ?a silent emergency? and called for urgent attention and investment. ?The situation is bound to recur, unless root causes are addressed,? he warned.

Quoting summary of the 2013 Nutrition Information System data, he said that 21 per cent of the children were acutely malnourished in areas adjacent to Tharparkar, mainly Umerkot and Sanghar.

He said that reports in early March highlighted a rising number of malnutrition-related clinical admissions and child mortality in the Tharparkar district.
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http://www.dawn.com/news/1094762/un-blames-health-nutrition-issues-for-tharparkar-deaths

Drought has killed 180 Tharis so far, CM told
THE NEWSPAPER'S CORRESPONDENT

Published
2014-03-21 07:01:09
MITHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday chaired a meeting of ministers, lawmakers and district officials at the local Circuit House to review the ongoing relief operation in the drought-hit areas of Thar.

He called for closely monitoring the relief work as well as distribution of free-of-cost wheat without any discrimination.
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The chief minister was informed that 180 drought-related deaths had been reported from various parts of the district since December last year. The victims included 104 children and 30 women, Mr Akram said. Forty-four cattle heads perished during the period, according to him.
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http://m.dawn.com/news/1094465/drought-has-killed-180-tharis-so-far-cm-told

Link to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority Situation Updates http://www.ndma.gov.pk/new/

One more Thar child dies taking the toll to 193 in 3 months

THARPARKAR: The spate of children?s death could not completely stop as one more child suffering from malnutrition died at Mithi Civil Hosptal, taking the death toll to 193 during a brief period of three and a half months, Geo News reported on Monday here.

Sources said that although the number of child patient coming to the Mithi Civil Hospital has dropped, yet the child death intermittently continues as one more child has died in the hospital last night.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-142191-One-more-Thar-child-dies-taking-the-toll-to-193-in-3-months

Tharparkar: 5 more children die of malnutrition, death toll above 194
Last Updated On 24 March,2014
Over 71 children are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of Tharparkar.

THARPARKAR (Dunya News) ? At least five more children died of malnutrition in Mithi Hospital, mounting the overall death toll from famine to 194 in Tharparkar district of Sindh.
According to details, six-year-old Farman, three-year-old Naveed and Bhagwan died in Mithi while another child expired in Chahchro area on Monday.
Meanwhile, over 71 children are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of Tharparkar.
Mass exodus is also underway as aid activities are facing delay due to negligence of Sindh government.
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http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakistan/216433-Tharparkar-5-more-children-die-of-malnutrition-d
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - over 190 fatalities

Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - over 190 fatalities

Eight more die in Thar as drought persists
THE NEWSPAPER'S CORRESPONDENT

Updated
2014-03-29 13:07:40

MITHI: As the Sindh government keeps harping on its denial of hunger being the major cause of deaths in Thar, eight people, among them a child, three women and four men, died of malnutrition on Friday, raising the death toll so far in Thar to 249.

Ms Meghi and Esardas died at Mithi civil hospital, Ms Manu died in Kerti village (Mithi taluka), Ms Harian Bheel, 40, breathed her last in Udani village in Chhachhro taluka, Allah Bux died in Mithi Gecho village, Gumano Bheel died in Rohiraro village, Allahdad Nohrio in Gurrabah village and Gobind Meghwar, 4, died at Nagarparkar hospital.

According to health department figures, 97 children died at Mithi civil hospital from December 2013 to March 2014 and 18 others expired at the hospitals of Diplo, Nagarparkar, Islamkot and Chhachhro, during the same period. A large number of deaths in remote areas have gone unreported.
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http://www.dawn.com/news/1096205/eight-more-die-in-thar-as-drought-persists
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

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Another five people die of malnutrition in Thar
Posted on 2014-03-28 16:28:28

Another five people die of malnutrition in Thar

MITHI (Monitoring Desk) ? Five more people, including two women and a child, died in Tharparkar, where the ongoing drought has reportedly claimed many lives, Local TV reported on Friday.

With the rise in temperature, scores of residents of various villages of Thar, including children and women, are suffering from malaria, gastroentritis, diarrhoea, TB and other diseases.

According to sources, another seven hundred patients including children have been admitted in Mithi Civil Hospital during last few days.
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http://thefrontierpost.com/article/85381/Another-five-people-die-of-malnutrition-in-Thar/
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

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Deaths in Tharparkar due to extreme cold and seasonal diseases

Irfan Aligi


Sunday, March 30, 2014 - Karachi?The in-charge of Relief Operation for Sindh government Taj Haider said that 201 deaths were reported in Tharparkar from Dec 1, 2013 to Mar 28, 2014 of which 51 were men, 34 women and 116 children. Starvation was not the cause of those 201 death but extreme cold season, pneumonia and other health disorders led to people?s death in Tharparkar. As far as deaths of children and infants were concerned, immmunocompromised state and premature births were major causes of their deaths while deaths of women were mainly reported during process of delivery.
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http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=237949
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

Monday, 31 March 2014 00:01
Thar famine: Four year old Sunil Kumar dies

SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)

Four year old Sunil Kumar died of Thar famine. The death toll has reached to 235.
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http://pakistan.shafaqna.com/shafaq/item/21512-thar-famine-four-year-old-sunil-kumar-dies.html

One more child dies in Thar, death toll rises up to 225

Posted by: Web Desk, Uploaded: 31st March 2014


THARPARKAR: One more child, aged 4-year-old was reported dead by the Civil Hospital Muthi authorities, whereas the total death toll rised up to 225, Aaj News reported.
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http://www.aaj.tv/2014/03/one-more-child-dies-in-thar-death-toll-rises-up-to-225/

One more child dies in Thar
National18 HOURS AGO BY AGENCIES
Another child died in the impoverished desert region of Tharparkar on Sunday, taking the death toll to 219.
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http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/03/30/national/one-more-child-dies-in-thar/
 
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Drought in Tharparkar takes lives of two more children today

Posted by: Web Desk, Uploaded: 1st April 2014


MITHI: Two more children (girls) died due to malnutrition in Tharparkar taking the total death toll to 227 in Mithi Civil Hospital, Aaj News reported.

According to the sources, the patients? rush in the civil hospital still continues, 102 people included 47 children seriously ill are presently under treatment. On the other hand, whereas 4 patients are admitted in Diplo Hospital, 2 patients are admitted in Islam Kot govt hospital, 65 in private, 11 patients in Nangar Par, and 99 patients in Chacharo.
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http://www.aaj.tv/2014/04/drought-in-tharparkar-takes-lives-of-two-more-children-today/

Health woes: Govt admits it cannot access 55% of drought-hit areas
By Our CorrespondentPublished: April 2, 2014

Health secretary says women and children in the area are malnourished.
KARACHI:
The Sindh government says it does not have access to approximately 55 per cent of the drought-hit district of the province, admitting that short-term policies are being adopted to overcome the situation in Tharparkar.
?Tharparkar is the most difficult district for the health department,? said the provincial health secretary Iqbal Hussain Durrani. ?Socio-economic issues in the district have made the situation dismal. Most of the areas lack infrastructure and medical officers don?t want to serve in Tharparkar.?
Durrani revealed that the government had issued warning notices to more than 400 medical officers. ?Malnutrition does exist among the children and mothers in the district,? he admitted.
He made these disclosures during a press briefing at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Tuesday. He was joined by other health officials, including Karachi EDO Dr Zafar Ejaz, who said that it was a challenge for him and his team to fix the health-related issues in the most difficult area of the province. ?We will replicate the strategy in other parts of the province once we overcome the situation in Tharparkar.?
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/690196/health-woes-govt-admits-it-cannot-access-55-of-drought-hit-areas/
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

196 children died in Thar, says report

14:12 Apr 04, 2014 PAKISTAN
196 children died in Thar, says report
THARPARKAR: Fact Finding Committee completed its report about drought situation in Tharparkar on Friday in which it said that as many as 196 children died in Mithi Hospital.

According to the report, the provincial government declared the district as a 'drought-hit' after two months and eight days.
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http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/04-Apr-2014/196-children-died-in-thar-says-report
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 249 fatalities

Tonnes of relief goods found rotting in Thar
THE NEWSPAPER'S CORRESPONDENT

Published
2014-04-12 07:44:12
MITHI: More than 1,500 maunds of rice, biscuits, water filters, blankets and other relief items sent by the Sindh government in 2011 for flood victims were found rotting inside a district government warehouse on Thursday during a raid carried out by the relief inspecting judge for district Tharparkar.

Mian Fayaz Rabani, who has been appointed relief inspecting judge for district Tharparkar by the Sindh High Cvourt, conducted the raid.

Instead of distribution among the calamity-hit people, the relief items were kept hidden and consequently most of these items got spoiled and rotten.
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1099224/tonnes-of-relief-goods-found-rotting-in-thar

Tharparkar tragedy: Extending beyond human lives
Friday
11 Apr 2014

ZOFEEN T. EBRAHIM

As death and disease continue to stalk the people of Tharparkar, one thing has become increasingly clear ? that unless the indigenous people make lifestyle adjustments in the face of climate change, the delicate balance of desert life will be lost forever.

With the desert getting hotter and rainfall unlikely to improve, stress on resources (water and grazing ground) due to increased human and animal population will exacerbate.

Signs of the changing weather pattern have already begun to show.

Take Ramjee for instance. Till a few months back, he was one of the more prosperous herdsmen of his village of Prah, in Diplo, one of the six talukas (others being Mithi, Islamkot, Dihly, Nagarparkar and Chahchro) of the Tharparkar district. He had as many as 80 to 90 sheep, but save for a dozen or so, all died of sheep pox last month. ?When I saw the signs of sickness, I got all my sheep vaccinated,? he said.
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http://ccapakistan.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/tharparkar-tragedy-extending-beyond-human-lives/
 
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Plagued by drought: Death stalks Thar?s children as healthcare remains elusive
By Our CorrespondentPublished: November 3, 2014

HYDERABAD / MITHI:
The unrelenting drought spell, compounded by poverty, poor nutrition and lack of health facilities and awareness, continues to take its toll on the children of Tharparkar.
Only last month, health authorities confirmed the deaths of 27 infants and children under the age of five years. Unconfirmed reports, however, place this number closer to around three dozen.
In the wake of such reports, all efforts and claims of the provincial government have failed to control the spike in mortality. Around 213 children have died since May, this year alone. Most of the deaths have been attributed to the prevalent malnourishment in the desert region ? which is experiencing its third year of drought.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/785653/...thars-children-as-healthcare-remains-elusive/
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 462 fatalities

Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 462 fatalities

275 children die in Pakistan
Nov 08 6:42 2014

In this district are called Tharprkr mostly Hindu minority.


Sindh government is in deep pressure on this issue.

Tharprkr in the last two days, news came of the death of four people. It's clear that the government failed to rein in the district yet, why not look at mortality pie.
We found a lack of proper facilities Lal said and we'll send your report to the provincial government.
In March this year when child mortality was high in the district of the Sindh Chief Minister Lal was removed from his post.
Were appointed to the hospital instead of red Sfakht Dahiri refused to take responsibility by adopting an official stance. He brought to us the most patient when their condition became very serious.
Dozens of villages with relief materials and supplies from water tankers to deliver water, Haleem Adil Sheikh, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League ... Lkayd said hundreds of people killed due to government neglect.
He said that the government declare the statements and go ahead, do something. He said the PPP leaders, health, food and animal husbandry crisis over who should probe against ministers adopted a defiant attitude.
In the district administration had earlier handed over a list of 115 children whose death occurred between December 2013 and March 2014.
Tharprkr plurality of the Hindu community which, according to the 1998 census, the total population are 35 per cent.

http://dailysamachar.in/275-children-die-in-pakistan-081211.html
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 462 fatalities

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DEADLY DROUGHT CONTINUES SWALLOWING LIVES IN THARPARKAR
Monday, November 10, 2014 - Tharparkar?One more infant died at Civil Hospital Mithi today (Sunday) as deadly drought continues to swallow lives in Tharparkar.

According to details, 2 days old child of Thar died due to dearth of food rising death toll to 46 in 41 days.

On the other hand, Rabita Committee, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) along with Khidmat-e-Khalq foundation has arranged medical and relief camps at Mithi High School for the medical treatment of famine victims. Accoding to MQM, chief MQM Altaf Hussain is expected to address people of Thar via telephone.
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http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=256040
 
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PPP leader admits death of nearly 300 Thar children this year

AFP
Published about 21 hours ago

KARACHI: Nearly 300 children have died this year in desert communities in Sindh, officials said Wednesday, as poor monsoon rains and livestock diseases have combined to worsen malnutrition.

The Thar desert, straddling the Indian border and one of Pakistan's poorest areas, has seen an alarming number of children suffering pneumonia or diarrhoea due to a dangerous mix of drought, poverty and poor health infrastructure.

The deaths have prompted criticism for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which governs in the southern province of Sindh where part of the desert is located.

A total of 496 people, 296 of them children, have died in Thar this year, Taj Haider, a senior PPP official with responsibility for the Thar situation, told AFP.
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http://www.dawn.com/news/1145537

See also; Pakistan: Huge loss of life in children due to pneumonia termed 'criminal negligence'
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 496 fatalities

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Thar toll continues rising
November 21, 2014 SHARE :
Agencies

THARPARKAR - Dearth does not give up to startle life in Thar as another child fell prey to it in Chacharu mounting the death toll to 97 on Thursday.
Another child was referred to the hospital in Umar Kot in the wake of critical condition whereas 35 children are ailing at the hands of malnutrition. The people of Thar got accosted with further trouble with the changing weather conditions while the Chachru administration has brought the supply of wheat to a standstill.
Earlier, it was reported that administration's negligence over the matter had increased the problems of the residents.
Tharparkar has seen an alarming number of children suffering pneumonia or diarrhoea due to a dangerous mix of drought, poverty and poor health infrastructure. The deaths have prompted criticism for the Pakistan People’s Party, which governs in Sindh.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that children used to die earlier also but nobody took notice of the deaths at that time.
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http://nation.com.pk/national/21-Nov-2014/thar-toll-continues-rising

Tharparkar drought claims life of three-year-old
By Web DeskPublished: November 21, 2014

MITHI: Death toll continues to rise in the drought-hit Tharparkar as another child passed away on Friday due to malnutrition, Express News reported.
The three-year-old child was a resident of Mithi.
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Since the start of October, 48 children have died in Tharparkar, according to doctor Abdul Jalil, district health officer for Tharparkar district.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/794802/tharparkar-drought-claims-life-of-three-year-old/
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 496 fatalities

Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 496 fatalities

High child mortality rate in Thar no new phenomenon, say experts

The Newspaper's Staff Reporter
Published about 10 hours ago

KARACHI: Medical experts based in Tharparkar and Karachi rejected on Sunday what the media had been describing as a continuing humanitarian crisis in Thar due to increasing number of children?s deaths and said the desert region had had the highest under five years mortality rate in Pakistan for the past three decades and there had been no extraordinary change in it so far.

Similar conditions prevailed in other poverty stricken areas of Pakistan including some parts of Karachi, experts pointed out as, according to them, the country has the third highest burden of maternal, fetal and child mortality in the world.

?Thar has the highest under-five mortality rate in Pakistan with 90 to 100 deaths per 1,000 live births. There has been no change in the statistics in three decades,? said Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta, a recipient of the United Nations award on child health and founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University.

?The desert region also has the highest rate of under-five mortality in the country?
Elaborating the issue, he said that the 1.5m population of Tharparkar with a conservative growth rate of 3pc would likely have 45,000 births annually, of which almost 40pc would be low birth weight.

?With an expected neonatal mortality rate of 45-50 per thousand, Tharparkar should have between 4,000 and 4,500 under-five deaths every year, almost half of them newborn infants.

?If the media is reporting 500-800 deaths in four months, this is not unexpected and hence my premise is that this whole focus is on a chronic longstanding issue that is periodically unearthed and highlighted but needs solutions which are long term,? he said.
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http://www.dawn.com/news/1146444/high-child-mortality-rate-in-thar-no-new-phenomenon-say-experts
 
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Nine more Thar infants die in penury
UMERKOT

The drought-like condition in Thar district took nine more lives of infants on Tuesday, putting the total number of child deaths from malnutrition to an alarming 100 in nearly two months.

Six infants died in village Alamsar near Chhachhro whereas three others died in the Civil Hospital Mithi. Doctors told Dawn that the reasons for their deaths were malnutrition, pneumonia and diarrhoea.
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In a recently released report by the district health department in Umerkot, it emerged that 85 people have died in Umerkot out of which 65 were infants. The collated death toll in 2014 is reported to be above 470. The deaths represent those areas where journalists are able to gain access. However, deaths of scores of infants, who have died in villages and private clinics, cannot be reported.
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http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=178668&heading=Pakistan

Two more children die in Tharparkar

December 1, 2014 12:22
Two more children die in Tharparkar

MITHI: The suffering of the desert people of Tharparkar continues to haunt the region with the death of two more children today, ARY News reports.

Two children died in Civil Hospital of Mithi, the chief town of drought-hit Tharparkar district, today.

The death toll due to food shortage in the desert district of Thar has reached to 137 with the death of two more children.

The area continues to suffer food shortage due to severe drought for a long time.
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http://arynews.tv/en/two-children-die-tharparkar/

Two more children die in Thar
THARPARKAR: Two more children died of malnutrition in Thar on Monday, taking the death toll to 181.A two-day-old baby and two- month-old baby boy died of malnutrition at the Civil Hospital Mithi and Hyderabad.
The death toll is on the rise due to lack of food and water in Thar area and the death toll is on the rise.
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http://abbtakk.tv/en/two-more-children-die-in-thar-011214/
 
Re: Pakistan - Drought, Malnutrition in Tharparkar - 500+ fatalities

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Another child dies in Thar

December 3, 2014 13:13
Another child dies in Thar

MITHI: Another newborn succumbed to the heartless conditions of the desert region of Thar on Wednesday, ARY News reports.

The death toll due to food shortage in the district has reached to 141 with the death of another little one.
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http://arynews.tv/en/another-child-dies-thar/
 
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311 children die in Pak?s Hindu majority district in 11 months
Posted on 16/12/2014 by Dailyexcelsior
ISLAMABAD : More than 300 children aged under five have died in Tharparkar, Pakistan?s only Hindu majority district, in the last 11 months due to malnutrition and other complications.
The main causes behind the children?s death in Tharparkar district include birth asphyxia, pre-term, low birth weight, respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, delivery of babies through traditional birth attendants and diarrhoea, Dawn said today citing a government report.
Tharparkar, a desert district of the country?s southern Sindh province along India?s Rajasthan state, has been in the grip of drought for a long while.
The report was submitted in the Sindh High Court by the chief secretary after the approval of Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah last week.
It classifies the casualties of the children according to their age, which shows 118 children who died were newborn babies (one day age), 82 were between two days to one month and 28 children of 1.5 months to three months and 29 were between eight months and one year of age.
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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/311-children-die-paks-hindu-majority-district-11-months/
 
[h=1]Tharparkar toll reaches 230 after four more deaths[/h] December 21, 2014 11:55


MITHI: Four more children perished due to starvation in the drought-stricken Tharparkar on Sunday, taking the death toll to 227, ARY News reported.
The infant children were under treatment at a hospital in Mithi. The death toll has reached 227 in last couple of months.
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http://arynews.tv/en/tharparkar-toll...227-one-death/
 
Two more infants die in drought-stricken Tharparkar

December 28, 2014 09:45

MITHI: The wave of deaths in drought-hit Tharparkar is still relentless as two more children died of malnutrition today, ARY News reported.
The death toll in the district has reached 256.
A one-month old infant died today at the Civil Hospital Mithi. The child belonged to Chachro village who was admitted at the hospital in Mithi. Similarly, another infant died at the hospital.
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http://arynews.tv/en/two-infants-die-drought-stricken-tharparkar/
 
Children Starving to Death in Pakistan’s Drought-Struck Tharparkar District
By Irfan Ahmed

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The death toll hit 650 at the close of 2014, but continues to rise in the New Year as scant food stocks wither away and cattle belonging to herding communities perish under the blistering sun.
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Long-standing structural inequalities in the region are now exacerbating the impacts of the drought. Research indicates that Tharparkar has the lowest Human Development Index of all 25 districts in the Sindh province.
Malnutrition and poor healthcare facilities, always a thorn to be reckoned with, are now contributing to a rising death toll as scores of people, mainly children, fall victim to diarrhoea and pneumonia.
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Edited by Kanya D’Almeida

http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/01/child...utm_source=rss
 
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