Gastro spreads in different parts of Pakistan

With the increase of gastro disease in different parts of the country, the death toll reached up to nine while hundreds have been admitted to the hospital for the treatment. In Nawabshah the gastro patients reached up to 800 and with the continuous flow of gastro patients in Sheikhpura, the bed in the hospitals are not available for the patients.
Besides Emergency Ward, the authorities of Medical College hospital Nawabshah have admitted the gastro patients in the Children ward.
District Nazim Talpur told a private television that due to severe heat and contaminated water the situation in Nawabshah district is alarming. He said the sewerage water mixed with the drinking water being carried by 40 years old pipelines.
He said that for the last 24 hours, the 90 gastro patients from Jaccobabad, 130 from Larkana, more than 200 from Shadad Kot, 50 from Shakarpur, over 150 from Dadu have been shifted to different public and private hospitals.
He said that 200 patients have been shifted to different hospitals in District Sukkur during the last four days, 155 are still in the hospital, while the remaining discharged after treatment. He however, said, however 45 gastro patents are still in Sukkur government hospitals.
District Nazim Sukkur Syed Nasir Hussain Shah directed the health officials that free medicines should be provided to gastro patients.
For the last 24 hours, more than 300 gastro and diarrhea patients have been brought to public and private hospitals in Hyderabad most of them were women and children.
According to Health Department 946 patients were admitted in the hospitals in which 356 have been admitted throughout Sindh province, while he remaining have been discharged after treatment.
In Punjab the gastro problem has increased in Kasur, Gujranwala and Sheikhupura. In Sheikhupura 133 patients have been brought to DHQ Hospital for the last 24 hours. Due to rush of patients the space is not available.
In Faisalabad, the gastro patients have increased due to drinking of contaminated water and uptil now ten patients have been brought to the hospital for treatment.
The disease has also been spreading in several district of Balochistan and more than 200 patients were brought to Jaffarabad and Nasirabad districts for the last 24 hours, while a number of gastro patients were admitted in Jal Magsi in the hospitals
In Mardan, the gastro patients are also increasing. Deputy Superintendent DHQ Hospital Mardan said that more than 150 patients are brought in the hospital daily most of them children.
In the recent wave of gastro disease, more than nine people have lost their lives out of which one is in Dadu, four Sukkur, one Dera Murid Jamali and three women patients in Gujranwala.
The experts have warned the public not to drink contaminated water and rotten fruit, as it is unhygienic and cause gastro disease.