KARACHI: The Sindh Information Department said on Friday that the relief activities in Tharparkar district were being continued as 453 children, including infants and those from one to five-years-old, were brought to Out-Patient Departments of the district and taluka hospitals of Tharparkar district. He informed that initially, 29 children were admitted to the hospitals for treatment and later on, 38 were discharged from the hospital as they got better after receiving immediate and proper treatment. He said that free wheat was being provided across the district and 7,004 families were provided with wheat under Phase –III today. Furthermore, he informed that 233 families of Phase –II were given 50 kg wheat bags while two families, who had not collected their wheat bags earlier in Phase-I, also approached their respective sentinel points and collected wheat bags. Thus so far, 64,442 bags had been distributed in Phase –II and 36656 bags stand already distributed in Phase-I, he said.

Source: Pakistan Today January 11, 2019 15:33 UTC