More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011. Each year, as the death toll climbs, reports are sought, commissions created and emergency plans announced by the provincial government. But none of these seem able to stop the recurring problems plaguing this vast 20,000sq km district. In hospital pharmacies and storage rooms across the region, stocks of medicine are adequate - sometimes even overflowing - but the lack of operational facilities, on-duty specialists and access render them out of reach for most. Tharparkar's women - with their brightly coloured clothes and bangles worn from their wrists to their...
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