Islamabad, Oct 30: According to ARY News, which cited reliable sources, Sindh has seen a dramatic increase in malaria cases, with the province reporting over 93,000 cases in the past week.
Up to 93,002 instances of malaria were reported throughout Sindh in the last week, according to NIH sources.
Larkana recorded the most cases of malaria (10,427), while Khairpur came in second with 7,858 cases.
Qambar reported 7,525 malaria cases, Mirpurkhas, 5,655, Dadu 5,980, Badin 4,204 , Sanghar 5,488 , Tharparkar 4,099, Tando Allahyar, 4,130, Sukkur 4,249, Naushehro Feroze 3,682 , Shikarpur 4,186 and Umerkot reported 3546 malaria cases.
Over 1,000 cases of vector-borne disease were reported in Karachi over the course of the last week, including 566 cases from Malir, 204 from district West, 161 from Central, 140 from East, 68 from Korangi, 41 from Karachi South, and 24 from Kemari, according to NIH sources.
Ehtesham Ali, the health adviser to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Amin Gandapur, took note of the 54,000 malaria cases that have been reported from various regions of the province this year last month.
He instructed each district’s District Health Officer (DHO) to take prompt action to prevent malaria and report back to his office.
The health adviser stated that the disease was now raging in the southern areas and that emergency steps were being implemented in this respect. The health adviser also mentioned that vector-borne diseases were quickly spreading as a result of climate change.
Citing a health department report, he stated that district Khyber was still the worst afflicted, with 10,000 malaria cases reported between January 2024 and August. In a similar vein, 6,000 people were initially reported from Shangla, 3,000 from Battagram, 4,000 from DI Khan, 2,000 from Tank and Karak, and 3,000 from Lakki Marwat.
