[DAWN] Health experts have raised alarm over the increasing number of ’extensively-drug resistant’ (XDR) typhoid cases being reported in the city and have urged the public to adopt good hygiene practices, drink boiled water and avoid eating raw food.They also called upon the government to initiate efforts for better sanitation and free vaccination campaigns against typhoid, a preventable disease.
XDR typhoid, they said, not only carried high risk of complications and was difficult to treat but was also showing a high relapse rate in children.
"It (XDR typhoid) has become quite common now. We are getting around 30 cases of this disease every week and these stats represent only one hospital," said Dr Jamal Raza, head of the National Institute of Child Health, the largest public-sector health facility for children’s treatment in Sindh.