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LARKANA: In the crackdown on illegal doctors, some 17 charlatans were gathered and their clinics were sealed in Larkana district on Saturday.
The police have suffered greatly from the quacks as a result of the recent outbreak of HIV-positive cases in Ratodero and its suburbs. The FIRs were registered under Articles 417, 419 and 269 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against arrested suspects, according to police sources.
Larkana Commissioner Saleem Raza Khuhro and Deputy Commissioner Noman Siddik told the media at the local press club that actions against quacks, illegal blood banks and laboratories will soon be launched.
The intensity of the action would be felt throughout the province, said the Commissioner. According to district health officials, the official number of charlatans was about 270, but other sources put it at around 1,100, he said.
The Commissioner feared that this number would be much higher and said: "According to my estimates, it could reach 4,000 to 5,000 people".
The number of cases at Ratodero continues to increase
He added that prosecutions would also be initiated against the owners of the premises who had rented their stores from charlatans.
Regarding the recent discovery of HIV cases in Ratodero, he said the quack was the potential source of spread of the disease, while the unsafe use of the blades by barbers was the second leading cause. Commissioner Khuhro said that the improper disposal of hospital waste and the use of recycled instruments [syringes and cannulas] also contributed to the spread of HIV.
"We have received complaints that even new syringes contained traces of blood and hair," he said, adding, "We are worried about HIV-infected patients," he said. .
The real challenge for us, he said, was to save the rest of the population from this deadly disease by taking precautionary measures. He urged the media to refrain from mentioning the names of HIV patients and to show them on television.
He added that in the actions taken so far against the quacks, 54 clinics, blood banks and laboratories had been sealed.
Up until Friday, 3,500 people were tested for blood and 128 of them appeared to be HIV positive. Of these, 102 were children, he said. At the same time, Faryal Talpur, Ratodero MPA, and PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, visited Saturday the blood testing camp at Ratodero Taluka Hospital, where 457 people were tested. HIV testing. Eight of them, including six children, were diagnosed with HIV, according to sources.
CMCH: closed operation room
The Orthopedic Department at Chandka Medical College Hospital Hospital (CMCH) had to postpone about 50 surgeries, which were kept on the list on Friday and Saturday, due to a medical system. Defective autoclave.
The two autoclaves present in Unit II of the department are intended for the steam sterilization of clothing, instruments and other items used in different surgical procedures.
An undercover orthopedic badistant professor told Dawn that the case had been communicated in writing to the CMCH medical superintendent, but to no avail. Even at the eleventh hour, he dropped a message on his cell phone (MS) to inform him of the situation, but to no avail, he added.
On May 3, Dr. Abdul Malik Shaikh pointed out in a letter to the MOH that the department's autoclaves were out of order and that the head of the operating room was repeatedly informing the management of the hospital.
But they [autoclaves] have not been repaired. "We are obliged to postpone operations; we [surgeons] are unable to perform operations before replacing the old autoclave with a new one ". During his visit Saturday to the orthopedic unit II, his operating room was found closed.
The badociate professor, Dr. Zameer Soomro working in the unit, and other doctors have confirmed the postponement of about 50 surgeries.
This tertiary hospital serves the needs of patients in the Larkana and Sukkur Divisions as well as in Balochistan and Punjab. The suspension of regular services, even for a few days, multiplies the suffering of patients going to the health facility from remote areas.
Posted in Dawn, May 5, 2019
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