Inauguration: Four mobile health units for Tharparkar

HYDERABAD: Four mobile health units mounted on a container truck will now provide health services to the remote areas of Tharparkar, with the desert region suffering its fourth consecutive year of drought. At a ceremony in Tharparkar on Friday, Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah inaugurated the four mobile health units. These are equipped with X-ray and ultrasound machines and have a lab along with male and female doctors and nurses. “We are spending Rs2 billion on these units so that the people of Tharparkar’s far-off areas can get health facilities,” he said. The CM also handed over appointment orders to 56 doctors who have been inducted in the health department to work in Tharparkar. “I hope these doctors will discharge their duty with dedication to serve humanity,” he said, referring to the general aversion of the medical community, including the doctors who belong to Tharparkar, of practising in the desert region.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 28^th, 2016.