Mysterious disease killed 60 children in Bolan, People of Hub, Sakran, Gadani to be affected by water supply disconnection

Occupied Balochistan: According locals of Lundi Khosa region of district Kachi, Balochistan, a mysterious skin disease killed at least 60 children and several are still suffering from this painful disease. The notables of the region demanded of the government of Pakistan to send the test samples of these children abroad in order to find an effective treatment to eradicate the agonizing disease.

Regional tribal elders Nasir Khosa and Manzoor Khosa told newsmen that the disease has been spreading in the area from last one year but no effective steps have been taken to cure the affected children. Most of the victims of this lethal disease are children aged between 1-3 years old. According to eye-witnesses and relatives of these children; “Soon after their birth small white spots start to appear on their skins which later turns into black 'sort of' wounds and begin itching. Then slowly the meet on their skins starts to decompose and worms will appear from their wounds”. Their desperate loved ones an in attempt to calm their children pour Gasoline (Lamp oil) on the wound in order to extract the worms from inside the wounds which relieves the children for a short period.

It has also been revealed that the affected children start crying as soon as the sun arises; they don’t like sunshine and heat but they feel relaxed alone in dark rooms. The parents said that the children can’t eat any food due to the blisters on their tongues. Several children lost their eye-sight (become blind) because of this mysterious but lethal disease. The regional notables complain that due government lack of attention the disease is rapidly spreading in other adjourning areas.

The elders said that few days ago a team of doctors have visited the area and tested the affected children. They admitted some of them, children, in BMC hospital but couple of days later the doctors in hospital declared the disease incurable and send the children back home. People and relatives of children in the region appealed through the media that the affected children must be send to foreign countries for better treatment if the doctors in Pakistan cannot help them. They said as soon as possible, a permanent cure /solution to this lethal disease must be found in order to save their next generation from this life-taking disease.

Many people in Balochistan suspect that this disease might be an after effect of the nuclear blast in Balochistan’s Chagai region on 28 May 1998. However, it is not clear yet whether it is due to nuclear blasts or is just a “what is being called a mysterious disease”. Whatever the causes of this fatal disease may be, the government’s lack of interest and deliberate silence is nothing less than systematic genocide of Baloch children.

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