As many as 29 more suspected cases of HIV were detected after the screening of 1,195 people in Ratodero taluka of Larkana district on Wednesday.
The cases emerged as the blood screening camp at Taluka Hospital Ratodero continued for a 17th day on Wednesday where a team of doctors along with technicians carried out the tests.
Wednesday’s figure, which includes 10 children, has taken the total number of people who tested positive for HIV in Ratodero since the blood screening exercise was launched to an alarming 524.
As part of the crackdown started against quacks and unregistered health facilities following the outbreak of HIV cases in Larkana, teams of the provincial health department sealed two dental clinics where syringes were allegedly being reused.
On Tuesday, a total of 1,616 people were screened at the Ratodero camp and of them 33 were identified as HIV positive, including two women and 31 children (17 boys and 14 girls).
