‘Sindh govt afraid of Covid-19’
PTI leader says his party won’t allow another lockdown in the province
PTI Khurram Sher Zaman. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
The federal government is fighting the coronavirus pandemic, while the Sindh government is afraid of it, claimed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Karachi division president Khurram Sher Zaman on Monday.
Addressing a press conference at Insaf House, Zaman claimed that the PTI would not let Sindh return to a lockdown, adding that the federal government should take over of Sindh's administration.
"Our party [PTI] and ministers are on the same page and we are raising our voice for the people of Sindh, as we are answerable to them," said Zaman.
He further alleged that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah blatantly opposed the PTI when its leaders "speak the truth and instead brings the 18th Amendment into every matter."
Stating that traders in the province were facing immense difficulties due to the lockdown announced by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, he claimed that the province had been ruined by the Bhutto-Zardari regime.
Calling for the PPP chairperson to look at the state of the hospitals in Sindh, he said the situation was worsening by the day. "It has reached the extent that private hospitals are charging Rs1.5 million to admit a single patient," claimed Zaman.
Additionally, he said, coronavirus screening tests were not being offered at every hospital in Sindh, which added to the people's suffering, while medical facilities were not being made available to the poor at hospitals that had been established on amenity plots.
He also asserted that though the Sindh government had been unable to establish a laboratory even 12 years into ruling the province, it did not hesitate to take credit for the forensic laboratory established at the University of Karachi.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2020.
The federal government is fighting the coronavirus pandemic, while the Sindh government is afraid of it, claimed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Karachi division president Khurram Sher Zaman on Monday.
Addressing a press conference at Insaf House, Zaman claimed that the PTI would not let Sindh return to a lockdown, adding that the federal government should take over of Sindh's administration.
"Our party [PTI] and ministers are on the same page and we are raising our voice for the people of Sindh, as we are answerable to them," said Zaman.
He further alleged that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah blatantly opposed the PTI when its leaders "speak the truth and instead brings the 18th Amendment into every matter."
Stating that traders in the province were facing immense difficulties due to the lockdown announced by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, he claimed that the province had been ruined by the Bhutto-Zardari regime.
Calling for the PPP chairperson to look at the state of the hospitals in Sindh, he said the situation was worsening by the day. "It has reached the extent that private hospitals are charging Rs1.5 million to admit a single patient," claimed Zaman.
Additionally, he said, coronavirus screening tests were not being offered at every hospital in Sindh, which added to the people's suffering, while medical facilities were not being made available to the poor at hospitals that had been established on amenity plots.
He also asserted that though the Sindh government had been unable to establish a laboratory even 12 years into ruling the province, it did not hesitate to take credit for the forensic laboratory established at the University of Karachi.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2020.