Punjab sends health units to Sindh

Medical camps set up in two flood-affected districts

LAHORE:

The Punjab government has sent two mobile health units to the flood-affected areas of Sindh.

The provincial health department dispatched the mobile health units, medical teams and a relief mission with medicines for the affected people of Sindh on the directions of Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.

The mobile health units have been sent to the Khairpur and Qambar Shahdadkot districts.

The CM stated that the Punjab government is standing with the flood-affected people of other provinces, including Sindh.

He disclosed that 296 doctors, nurses, dispensers and nine trucks of medicines had been sent earlier to Sindh and Balochistan under the spirit of goodwill and wellbeing. The mission of the Punjab government set up medical camps in the flood-affected areas of both provinces. He said Punjab was playing the role of an elder brother. “We are ready to fulfill the needs of the calamity-stricken people of other provinces.” he added.

The CM emphasised that his government was serving the flood-affected people of other provinces and would continue to do so irrespective of political considerations.

On the other hand, the Punjab Chief Minister’s Adviser on Information Omar Sarfaraz Cheema said that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) had forgotten the flood-affected people in the excitement of allegedly getting reprieve from accountability through an ‘NRO-II’ .

He claimed in a statement that even earlier, representatives of the federal government had visited the areas inundated by the recent floods only to the extent of photo sessions.

Cheema said that having utterly failed to face former prime minister Imran Khan in the political arena, the PDM could only manage to falsely accuse him of stealing watches and bottles of mineral water. He said that Khan had honestly protected every penny of the national kitty.

Be it foreign visits or domestic spending, the former PM had used every penny of the nation thriftily and focused all his attention on the country’s development, public relief, self-sufficiency and independence, the adviser maintained.

He said it was a result of the spirit of public service that petrol was worth Rs150 per litre and the dollar was valued at Rs178 during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rule but the per unit price of electricity was at Rs16 and the country’s economy was growing at a rate of 5.9%, while the industry and exports were booming. All these positive indicators of the economy were despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

He alleged that the PDM leaders had come to power only for personal gains, and in the process of saving the Rs1,100 billion of themselves and their followers, they had caused irreparable damage to the country.

Cheema asserted that the days of the PDM were numbered.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said while speaking to PTI leader Hamayun Akhtar Khan, who called on him, that the focus of his politics was to bring improvement in the condition of common people.

“We never indulged in vindictive politics like the PML-N and always set positive political traditions. PTI chairman Imran Khan is the most popular leader of Pakistan,” the chief minister said and vowed to continue supporting him.