SUKKUR, July 9: The service delivery system, including availability of life saving and other medicines, had been improved in government hospitals and dispensaries of the Sukkur district, claimed EDO (health) Dr Mohammad Ashfaq Piracha.

Terming Sukkur a polio-free district, he told this correspondent here on Tuesday that anti-polio campaigns had successfully been carried out in the area where no polio case had so far been reported.

Giving details of patients treated at the health facilities of the district, he said that 84,713 indoor and 1,326,989 outdoor patients were treated from July 1, 2002 to May 31, 2003.

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