Save children

Every one of us must be in shock to read the recent UNICEF report about fear of dying of 70,000 children owing to numerous diseases as a result of polluting the drinking water by the current devastating floods in the country. I request our elected government to declare ‘health emergency’ in the country and utilise all resources to save the lives of flood victims particularly children on priority basis. I also suggest our President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani to use their personal influences and request heads of various governments to provide us make-shift hospitals on urgent basis as our brother Muslim country, Turkey has done and already sent such hospital to Dera Murad Jamali in Balochistan. Such hospitals would definitely be useful and ensure tremendous decrease in untimely sad demise of our children by providing them treatment. In this regard, Cuba would be more useful as they have very vast set up of medical manpower and other related facilities by sending us medical manpower along with make-shift hospitals on short notice as they had done in the year 2005 when earthquake made extensive losses in Northern Areas and AJK.

While emphasizing on the need of immediate treatment of children in the whole country, I request the President as well as Prime Minister to pay particular attention to Sindh where the number of dying children, as per press reports has increased alarmingly. Needless to mention here, it is our duty of all to save the precious lives of our children on priority basis.

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