Diphtheria — Pakistan
Due to unavailability of life-saving drugs, 7 children have died of diphtheria during the last few weeks at the Children’s Hospital [Lahore, Punjab province].
Many other children are at grave risk. “Reports of diphtheria cases are reaching the health secretariat from some other parts of the province (Punjab),” a senior official told Dawn. He said that, being an acute toxin-mediated disease, diphtheria has a terribly high mortality ratio. Provision of the drug diphtheria antitoxin (DAT) from
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