Three more children died due to malnutrition in drought-hit Thar on Monday taking the death toll to 115 in 54 days. According to reports, 15 days old Mushtaq Ibrahim breathed his last at Civil Hospital Mithi and 18 months old Rasheed Samijo and an infant died in Chachro whereas an expecting mother also died in the hospital due to malnourishment.
Scarcity of water and food, inaccessibility to relief goods and the Sindh government’s indifference to the plight of the people of the drought-hit region has made deaths, mainly of infants, a daily norm in Tharparkar.
