The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has accused the government of mishandling the dengue outbreak and trying to hide the number of people affected and demanded the chief minister’s resignation.
In a press release issued after a meeting at its Punjab office, PTI officials said that “real estimates” put the actual number of people infected and killed by dengue at four times the official figures given by the Health Department.
They said the government should have started its pesticide spray campaign before the rains. They said that those areas where the families and friends of government officials lived were sprayed first. They said treatment facilities at public hospitals were very poor, while private hospitals were too expensive for the common man. They said the chief minister should resign for his poor handling of the crisis.
Ahsan Rasheed, Dr Yasmeen Rashid and Andleeb Abbas attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2011.
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One man show is always a faliure and this is the case with the punjab government. I wonder what will happen to Pakistan, if PML-N takes charge of whole country (god forbid)...