CM directs health dept to send surveillance team to Measle-affected village of Tando Allahayar for inquiry
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CM directs
health dept to send surveillance team to Measle-affected village of Tando
Allahayar for inquiry
KARACHI Sindh
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the Health department to depute
one medical officer to visit the Measles-affected Chando Meo village of Tando
Allahayar daily and carry out mop-up activity in the village and surrounding
area to contain the contagion.
He issued these
directions to the Secretary Health Rehan Baloch who submitted him an initial
report on the suspected measles-related deaths in Chando Meo village of Tando
Allahayar on Sunday.
According to the
report submitted to the CM, the surveillance team immediately visited the
village. All four suspected cases were investigated, blood samples were
collected, cases were line-listed, and patients were referred to LUMHS for
further management.
Secretary of
Health Rehan Bloch stated that on April 26, 2024, Civil Hospital Tando Allahyar
reported him four cases of suspected measles that were brought in from village
Chandro Muhajri, in the Lal Faqri Behrani area of UC Dingano Bozdar.
Unfortunately, three deaths have occurred in the village as a result.
Details of cases
are as under.:
• Adil S/O Asif age 5-year of village
Chando Meo.
• Adnan S/O Asghar age-6 year, village
Chando Meo.
• Atif S/O Asif age 8 years
• Ishfaque / Eshu S/O Ashraf age-10 years
resident of Iqbal colony, Latifabad 12, Hyderabad.
On April 26,
2024, a Rapid Response team, including a District Health Officer, DFP EPI,
Surveillance team, Paediatrician, MO, DSV, and area vaccinator, visited the
area after confirming four suspected measles cases and three related deaths.
Details of three
death cases are as under:
Iqra D/O Ashraf
7-year-old resident of Iqbal colony Latifabad, Hyderabad. The child died on
April 25 in Hyderabad at home; the dead body was brought to the village Chando
Meo for the funeral. The parents said that the two doses of Measles vaccination
were administered to the child.
Ashique S/O
Ashraf is a 4-year-old resident of Iqbal Colony, Latifabad 12, Hyderabad. The
child died on April 26, 2024 in the
village Chando Meo home. Two doses of Measles vaccination were also
administered to the child as per parents’ statement.
Arman s/o Yamen
age 3 years, resident of village Chando Meo, Tando Allahyar.
Child expired on
April 26, at home. Two doses of Measles vaccination were also given to her as
per parents statement.
According to the
report all three children expired at home and were not taken to the hospital.
Four suspected
measles cases who were referred to LUMHS Hyderabad include Ishfaque/Eshu S/o
Ashraf 10 years old expired in LUMHS on the evening of April 26, 2024, and the
remaining three children left against medical advice (LAMA) from the hospital
on April 27, 2024. One child Adnan S/o Asghar 6-year-old died on April 27,
2024, on the way from LUMHS to village Chando Meo adding a total of death five.
Patient Atif s/o
Asif 8-years old readmitted to Civil Hospital Tando Allahyar, as the condition
of the child was not good parents were advised to get the child admitted to
LUMHS or any tertiary care hospital, but the parents were reluctant to not go
to Hyderabad and continued treatment in Tando Allahyar. After counselling child
was referred and admitted to LUMHS.
The CM directed
the Secretary of Health to further activate his vigilance teams and send them
to the village to inspect the area as a case study so that necessary preventive
measures could be taken on an emergency basis.
Mr Shah directed
the health department to trace the actual reason for the measles or any other
cause which claimed innocent lives.
