As many as 11 persons lost their lives due to diarrhea during the last one month while 15,897 affectees from 21 districts of Sindh remained admitted to hospitals from May 13 till date, the health department official said.
No case of diarrhea has so far been reported from any part of Shikarpur and Kashmore districts of the province, however, the directorate general of health services is making all out efforts to control the disease.
According to the director general health services, Badin is the worst affected district where four persons lost their lives and 2,379 male, female and children remained admitted to different hospitals.
Two diarrhea patients failed to survive in Jamshoro and Tharparkar districts while one patient each from Sanghar, Sukkur and Khairpur districts breathed his last during the period under report. According to district-wise detail of diarrhea cases, 5,856 diarrhea patients were reported to the hospitals of Karachi and 694 of them were admitted to hospitals. However, in Hyderabad, 605 patients were admitted against 4,521 cases.
Besides, 524 more patients were admitted to LiaquatUniversityHospital, Hyderabad Branch, against 11,724 cases of diarrhea which were reported to the hospitals. In Tando Muhammad Khan, 781 diarrhea affected patients were admitted against 7,195 reported cases to different hospitals while in Tando Allahyar, 4,948 patients had been reported of whom 900 were admitted in hospitals. In Matiari, 957 patients were admitted against 3,825 reported cases from different parts of the district while in Dadu, 5,017 patients were reported and 907 of them were admitted to various hospitals.
In Jamshoro district, two persons failed to survive against diarrhea from amongst 221 admitted patients. A total of 581 persons with diarrhea were reported in the hospitals.
In Badin, four persons lost their lives while 2,379 patients remained admitted to hospitals of the district against 7,053 diarrhea affected patients while in Thatta 4,890 patients were reported with diarrhea and 1,228 of them were admitted to hospitals of the district.
In Mirpurkhas, 1,860 patients were reported and 624 of them were admitted to hospitals of the district while two persons lost their lives while 352 were admitted and 1,289 other patients were reported in hospitals of Sanghar district.
In Umerkot, 3,245 persons were reported with the disease and 1,922 of them were admitted to different hospitals of the district while in Tharparkar, two persons lost their lives while 249 were admitted and 697 others were reported to hospitals of the district with diarrhea. In Sukkur, one death of diarrhea patient was reported while 553 others were admitted to hospitals against 4,346 affected people who were reported to hospitals of the district with the disease. Similarly, one diarrhea affected patient died in Khairpur district, 476 were admitted and 1690 others were reported to hospitals. In Ghotki district, 981 patients of diarrhea were admitted to hospitals against 2,582 patients who were reported with diarrhea in the district.
In Shaheed Benazirabad, 433 persons were admitted against 4,587 patients who reported to hospitals. Besides, 112 diarrhea affected patients were admitted against 307 who reported to hospitals of Naushero Feroze district, 482 patients were admitted against 1,797 affected people to various hospitals of Larkana district, 500 were admitted against 2,686 diarrhea affected patients who were reported to hospitals of Kamber-Shahdadkot district and 17 patients were admitted against 938 diarrhea affected persons who were reported to hospitals of Jacobabad district.