Web Desk (LTN NEWS): The Sindh government gave Rs480 million to 24 districts so they could buy the spraying equipment, but Karachi didn’t get any money.
The Sindh government has given Rs480 million to 24 districts in the province so they can buy equipment to spray for mosquitoes. This is because the number of diseases spread by mosquitoes has gone up after widespread flash floods across the country.
Karachi, the provincial capital, hasn’t gotten any money, even though there has been a worrying rise in dengue cases in the metropolis.
Sources say that the six districts of Karachi have not been given the money to buy spray machines. One company, DMC Malir, has been given Rs20 million to buy machines.
Murtaza Wahab, a spokesman for the Sindh government, said that Karachi already has a lot of machines that fumigate. Mosquito spray is used every day to kill mosquitoes in the city’s 30 union councils.
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Sherry Rehman, the Minister for Climate Change, said in a statement that 584,246 people are living in camps across the country. She stressed that the government needs to pay attention to the issue because the health crisis could cause a lot of trouble.
She also said that so far, there has been a case of dengue fever in Karachi. She warned that the people who were hurt by the floods in Sindh, whether they have a place to stay or not, maybe in danger of suffering again.
Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that since the beginning of September, 15,101 people in flood-affected areas have been checked for water-borne diseases. Memon said that malaria was found in 3,072 of them.
In response to a question about how common the dengue virus is in the province, the Sindh minister said that there have been 1,066 cases of dengue in Karachi, nine in Hyderabad, eleven in Mirpurkhas, five in Shaheed Benazirabad, and seven in Sukkur this month.
He also said that nine people died from the infection. All of them were from Karachi.
