Complaints of water shortages in Rawalpindi were much higher than the other cities in the province, particularly in the summer, says Sharif.
The Punjab government will soon launch projects to solve summer water shortages in Rawalpindi city. The projects launched by the federal government had failed, due to which the water project in the province was also shut.
Chief Minister (CM) Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif stated this in response to a question after formally inaugurating the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) on Monday.
He said that his government would launch an effective scheme to cater to the need for clean drinking water in Rawalpindi. He added that complaints of water shortages in Rawalpindi were much higher than the other cities in the province, particularly in the summer.
Responding to a question about the PML-N sit in at Islamabad, Sharif said the party stood with Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). On the speculation that the key to the dissolution of assemblies was in his hands, Sharif joked, “Yes I have the keys but I will not tell anybody when I will use them. I will use them whenever I want.”
The CM arrived at 4pm, hours later than the scheduled time, creating anxiety among the people. The extraordinary security measures taken by law enforcement on the arrival of CM triggered a massive gridlock in the city, as tens of thousands of vehicles were stuck in traffic around town.
Earlier, he said that RIC was built at a cost of Rs2.905 billion. He said RIC Chief Executive Maj General (retd) Azhar Kiani was a competent heart surgeon and would run the institute perfectly.
He said heart patients from all over the province and also Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Biltistan, Azad and Jammu Kashmir, and other areas could avail free-of-cost health facilities in the 272 bed hospital, which was equipped with all modern medical facilities and machines.
He said the hospital can handle 10 operations per day.
The CM then visited various wards and inquired about the health of patients admitted in the hospital.
Punjab Health Secretary Arif Nadeem, former Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad, Advisor to CM on Health Khawaja Salman Raffique, MNA Hanif Abbasi, RIC Medical Superintendent, Holy Family Hospital Liver Department Head Dr Umer and many others accompanied the chief minister.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2013.
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Sir where were you for 5 years? I was misguided that your party is restricted to GT Road since Rawalpindi falls on that route. It would've helped if you looked outside Lahore during the last 20-30 years of poor performance & failed promises