Hepatitis outbreak in 90 villages of Hazro.HAZRO, 19 March , 2009 (Frontier Star) -- People living in Hazro and its adjacent 90 villages are suffering from Hepatitis due to unavailability of clean drinking water drinking watersupply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. and medical facilities. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the people, unavailability of clean drinking water was the basic reason behind outbreak of this deadly diseases. They said the Tehsil A tehsil (or tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, taluq) is a unit of government in some countries of South Asia. Generally, a tehsil consists of a city or town that serves as its headquarters and its adjacent 90 villages also lack medical facilities, compelling them to travel to Attock and Rawalpindi for medical treatment. They demanded high level authorities to take notice of the issue, besides sending medical team there for treatment of people diagnosed with hepatitis. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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