Three more children die of malnutrition in Tharparkar

Due to food scarcity and various diseases, three more children have passed away in Sindh's Tharpkar district.

According to the Health Department, the children affected by food scarcity and various diseases were transferred to the Civil Hospital Mithi.

The Health Department stated that the ages of the three children who died due to food scarcity and various diseases in the last 24 hours range from newborn to around one year old.

The children who were transferred belong to rural areas of Tharparkar, while the total number of deaths this year has reached 122.

Lack of clean drinking water was cited as major reason for the poor nutrition of Thar community. Seasonal migration, nomadic lifestyle, and scattered population makes service provision a problem. Early marriages and low/poor birth spacing another problem that perpetuates the malnutrition vicious cycle.