Another gastro patient lost his life at the affectees' camp in Karachi area of Gulshan-e-Memar, raising the overall death toll across Sindh to 76, Geo News reported Wednesday.The ramped up number of deaths is mainly attributed to unhygienic food, contaminated water and bad sanitary condition at the relief camps.
The worst-hit by the gastro diseases is District Kashmore, where at least 54 people succumbed to the disease.
Thousands of people affected with various skin and stomach diseases were admitted to private and government hospitals in the affected districts. The relief camps and the adjacent affected villages are target of the gastro diseases.
These camps feature scorching heat, polluted water, swarming mosquitoes and flies, sub-standardized food and poor hygienic condition, making a conducive grounds for diseases to break out.