QUETTA: The Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan has started relief efforts and was assisting the civil administration in handling Spread of Cholera in Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti.
According to the official sources, water bowsers were employed to ensure supply of water to the local population.
A Medical camp was established for people affected with Cholera. The doctors, nurses and paramedics were treating disease affected people. A medical lab was also being established and necessary medicine was being provided to the affected population.
People dep¬rived of clean drinking water and facing a cholera outbreak in the Pir Koh gas field area of Dera Bugti district took out a protest rally and staged a sit-in on Saturday.
People took to the roads in droves, carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demands. They chanted slogans against the government and the local administration. They finally staged a sit-in, blocking the road leading towards the gas plant.
Local tribal elders speaking on the occasion said there was an outbreak of cholera due to the absence of clean drinking water in Pir Koh. “We have no other option but to drink contaminated water from the ponds along with the animals,” they said.
People had been protesting for the last two days, but no steps had been taken so far to provide clean drinking water, they lamented, adding that around a dozen, including children, people had lost their lives to cholera so far in Pir Koh tehsil. –Agencies
