LARKANA - The principled and ideological politics of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto era has already vanished in Sindh and now the province is stinking with dirty feudal politics, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mumtaz Ali Bhutto.
Talking to various delegations at Mirpur Bhutto on Friday, he said feudal lords, Pirs and Mirs of Sindh are ready to join any party whose chance to win the election is brighter.
However, now for the first time these opportunist political turncoats are undecided which party to join. He said now if a feudal lord is in the PML-Q, he had already placed his brother in the PPP and is trying to join the PML-N.
He said these spineless feudal lords wanted to enjoy benefits of the government, irrespective of which party would win. He said the principled and ideological politics of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto era has already buried somewhere, and now there is foul stink of opportunistic feudal politics everywhere in Sindh province.
400 Thalassemia patients under treatment at CMCH: As many as 400 Thalassemia patients have so far been registered at Chandka Medical College Hospital which is being run like orphanage as no proper beds or other facilities including medicines have so far been provided to it that has multiplied sufferings of the patients.
Similarly, 940 Thalassemia patients are registered at the Thalassemia Care Centre in Nawabshah which has 70 beds and is run by a philanthropist. This centre caters to the needs of more than ten districts which include Sanghar, Badin, Nawabshah, Khairpur, Sukkur, Naushehro Feroze, Dadu and others.
A team that arrived in Larkana to collect blood for the patients, for whom they organised camp in Jinnah Bagh, told that out of the four points of blood collected in a day, one was detected as containing Hepatitis C disease. The organiser said that out of 940 patients, 150 are suffering from Hepatitis B & C and only one has been detected HIV positive that belongs to Dadu.
The centre was established in February 2007 and is working smoothly since then but they said that they are now facing acute shortage of blood donors that’s why they are in Larkana. They added that they have referred 5 cases for bone marrow transplantation to Karachi.
Paediatrician Dr Muhammad Sadiq Siyal who is employed as Demonstrator in Peoples Medical College in BS-20 is supervising the centre as in charge, Raja Khan Abro who supervised the blood donating camp told reporters in Larkana. He said medicines are supplied to the patients free of cost regularly. Surprisingly, the much needed injection is not available in 1350-bed Teaching Hospital of Larkana since last over four months.
Dr Siyal said that the affected children needed blood transfusion every ten days or depending on their condition.
He added that fully screened blood is supplied to the affected patients.