Zaman chides Ishaq Dar for ‘I don’t care’ remark

Says public healthcare system in a shambles after PPP led Sindh govt took over hospitals

KARACHI:

The PTI parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly and Deputy Secretary General of the party, Khurram Sher Zaman has said in a statement on Twitter that the country is at the brink of bankruptcy, the IMF is not agreeing and Ishaq Dar says. 'I don't care'.

If the finance minister does not care then who would care for the people and the country? Dar went to the prime minister's plane and came back, yet the priority is not the care of the people, because now the country is in the hands of corrupt people, the imported government has no short, long, or mid-term plan to manage the country's economy. Dar is once again artificially managing dollar. Country's economy will never improve in such an uncertain situation.

PTI parliamentary leader criticised the Sindh and the federal governments and said that there is a lack of medicines in government hospitals in Karachi ever since PPP took over the healthcare facilities the PTI had put under the Centre's watch.

Sindh government should tell when there will be a crackdown against the sellers of medicines in black. The PPP led Sindh government is more dangerous for its people than all types of virus and bacteria. The reason for the shortage of medicines is to impose additional tax on pharmaceutical companies, due to poor policies, many big pharmaceutical companies have closed down in the city, he said adding PPP has ruined both federal and provincial health departments.

Zaman alleged that a 'drug mafia' is active from the Drug Regulatory Authority to low-level pharmacies and hospitals. He said that treatment from private hospitals is beyond the reach of the poor and middle class people who look up to the state-funded public healthcare, but the condition of government hospitals of Karachi has worsened, the citizens are suffering due to the deterioration of the health system.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 6^th, 2022.