By Yousaf Ajab Baloch
Union council Iskalkoo is one of the nearest union councils of district head quarter Of Kalat ,some 16 km .People of Iskalkoo are deprived of all basic facilities of life ,just few villages have some facilities of health ,education which do not meet the requirements of the communities. The facilities in mentioned area are equal to none ,lack of skills and poverty worsens the level of daily life ,extreme poverty and current drought have increased in the indigence and hardships of the communities more .
Human prosperity organization was established in 2006 and focused U/C iskalkoo for social change and participation in development sector .HPO has been conducting seminars , workshops and community meetings including formation of community organizations for mobilization and motivation of communities . In January 2010 the social workers while formation of community organizations felt that a skin disease was affecting to the children and women very rapidly .Feeling it dangerous for children and communities HPO team conducted a survey at house hold level and collected facts and figures about affected people, HPO surveyed in 10 villages of U/C Iskalkoo.As soon as the survey completed HPO informed district Health officer Kalat and held a press conference. According to the survey the skin disease had been existing for four years but in 2010 it affected a large number of children. For the treatment of victims of skin disease the district health team with five doctors visited Iskalkoo and arranged medical camp and provided medicines to children, up to on going month HPO has continued the treatment of children.
The doctors observed, analyzed and certified that the skin disease was caused by unhygienic practices, water and sanitation problems and contaminated water .According to the skin specialist Dr.Gansham Das the mentioned disease is caused by lack of sanitation at house hold level and contaminated water in community use .It is the disease of fungous and infectious, it quickly affects to the vulnerable groups on hands, face, mouth and other parts of the body and then it turns in the shape of (exima ) which spreads human to human .
It was discussed that the existence of disease was four years in area
but lack of information about prevention of it and due to poverty hardly
ever people would contact with doctors, lack of mobilization on water
and sanitation and open deification in the area causes such disease.
Treatment of affected people is taking place but this is the time to
bring behavior change in communities, conducting of trainings on
hygiene education and construction of model dustbins, latrines and
pavement of water channels can motivate people to impede such diseases
and root out the causes.
Union council Iskalkoo is one of the nearest union councils of district head quarter Of Kalat ,some 16 km .People of Iskalkoo are deprived of all basic facilities of life ,just few villages have some facilities of health ,education which do not meet the requirements of the communities. The facilities in mentioned area are equal to none ,lack of skills and poverty worsens the level of daily life ,extreme poverty and current drought have increased in the indigence and hardships of the communities more .
Human prosperity organization was established in 2006 and focused U/C iskalkoo for social change and participation in development sector .HPO has been conducting seminars , workshops and community meetings including formation of community organizations for mobilization and motivation of communities . In January 2010 the social workers while formation of community organizations felt that a skin disease was affecting to the children and women very rapidly .Feeling it dangerous for children and communities HPO team conducted a survey at house hold level and collected facts and figures about affected people, HPO surveyed in 10 villages of U/C Iskalkoo.As soon as the survey completed HPO informed district Health officer Kalat and held a press conference. According to the survey the skin disease had been existing for four years but in 2010 it affected a large number of children. For the treatment of victims of skin disease the district health team with five doctors visited Iskalkoo and arranged medical camp and provided medicines to children, up to on going month HPO has continued the treatment of children.
The doctors observed, analyzed and certified that the skin disease was caused by unhygienic practices, water and sanitation problems and contaminated water .According to the skin specialist Dr.Gansham Das the mentioned disease is caused by lack of sanitation at house hold level and contaminated water in community use .It is the disease of fungous and infectious, it quickly affects to the vulnerable groups on hands, face, mouth and other parts of the body and then it turns in the shape of (exima ) which spreads human to human .
Yousaf Ajab Baloch is Human rights defender and
staff writer of the first online English newspaper of Balochistan The
Baloch Hal. He can be reached at
