Thar death toll rises to 212, as one more child dies

MITHI: One more girl child died due to malnutrition taking the total death toll to 212 in Civil Hospital here, Geo News reported on Tuesday.

Sources said that the patients’ rush in the hospital still continues, as over 40 children seriously ill are presently under treatment.

Famine-hit Tharis also facing great difficulties in obtaining the government announced relief amounts from the one government and three private banks in Mithi and the lone private bank in Chachro whose ATM machines often go out order or out of cash, sources said.

Besides with the shooting mercury in the summer heat, most of the private relief teams and NGOs have left Tharparkar, while the government relief work moving at snail’s pace further compounding the woes of the people in Tharparkar.