PSP chief ‘alarmed’ by spike in Covid-19 infections
Kamal says quarantine centres have to be set up at UC level
Mustafa Kamal. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
The nation must stop pinning its hopes on its incompetent rulers in this dire situation of coronavirus, said Pak Sarzameen Party chairperson Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday.
Addressing his party workers via a video-link, Kamal expressed the worry that if the death rate continued to soar in the next few days, there may arise the need to establish quarantine centres and make-shift hospitals at the union council level. As a result, he ordered party workers to begin preparing and complete the work for such an emergency in the next two days.
He added that the lives of doctors and paramedics staff were at stake, with four doctors recently losing their lives while fighting the pandemic.
Claiming that he had predicted that the government would not be able to control the spread of coronavirus, he accused both the federal and provincial governments of scoring points against each other in this emergency.
He suggested that the only way to deal with this crisis was to activate 1.5 million local government representatives through a presidential ordinance even for a few months, with workers from all political parties working together under the supervision of these elected representatives.
Kamal further asserted that most public issues could be solved through further amendments to the 18th Amendment, including the introduction of the Provincial Finance Commission Award, so that power and resources could be provided to the lowest level.
"The fruits of the 18th Amendment can only be reaped by empowering the people at the lowest level through legal reforms," he insisted, adding that the "incomplete" amendment was harming the country instead of helping it.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2020.
The nation must stop pinning its hopes on its incompetent rulers in this dire situation of coronavirus, said Pak Sarzameen Party chairperson Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday.
Addressing his party workers via a video-link, Kamal expressed the worry that if the death rate continued to soar in the next few days, there may arise the need to establish quarantine centres and make-shift hospitals at the union council level. As a result, he ordered party workers to begin preparing and complete the work for such an emergency in the next two days.
He added that the lives of doctors and paramedics staff were at stake, with four doctors recently losing their lives while fighting the pandemic.
Claiming that he had predicted that the government would not be able to control the spread of coronavirus, he accused both the federal and provincial governments of scoring points against each other in this emergency.
He suggested that the only way to deal with this crisis was to activate 1.5 million local government representatives through a presidential ordinance even for a few months, with workers from all political parties working together under the supervision of these elected representatives.
Kamal further asserted that most public issues could be solved through further amendments to the 18th Amendment, including the introduction of the Provincial Finance Commission Award, so that power and resources could be provided to the lowest level.
"The fruits of the 18th Amendment can only be reaped by empowering the people at the lowest level through legal reforms," he insisted, adding that the "incomplete" amendment was harming the country instead of helping it.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2020.