FIRs have also been registered against them on directions of Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Meanwhile, names of four drugs have been made public on the official website of Punjab health department and practitioners have been directed not to prescribe them.
The names include Cardiovestin (Simvastatin), Alfagril (Clopidogrel), Concort (Amlodipine) and Soloprin (Asprin). The medicines, consultants have been told, must not be prescribed until a probe into the matter is concluded.
The Federal Inspectors of Drugs and an FIA team have also visited the PIC for examining the medicines and other records and recording statements of PIC officials as well as of the victims’ relatives.
A district and sessions court has put Shadman SHO on notice in a petition seeking registration of a case against hospital workers who purchased substandard medicines that have so far killed 32 people.
Hearing the petition on Monday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Arif Hameed Shaikh directed the SHO to submit a reply by January 27. The petition seeks the registration of an FIR against the medical superintendent of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and the Punjab health secretary for their alleged involvement in purchasing the medicines which were later handed out to patients for free.
Petitioner Ahmed Raza contended in his petition that on January 21 he approached Shadman Police to register a case against the accused but the SHO refused. He implored the court that the management of PIC and its MS, in connivance with the health secretary, purchased substandard medicines which caused the deaths of 32 people, including the petitioner’s cousin Kareem Sultan. He prayed that the court direct the respondent to register a case against the accused.
Meanwhile, a petition was filed in the Lahore High Court for a judicial inquiry into the deaths.
The petition, filed by Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique, states that over two dozen patients have died while dozens are in critical condition because of medicines provided by the PIC. The petition calls it a case of sheer negligence on part of the PIC administration for which they should be taken to the task.
He stated that the supply of adulterated or spurious drugs is playing havoc with lives of innocent citizens and the federal and provincial health departments have failed to act against those responsible. He said that a thorough investigation is needed into the matter so that responsibility can be affixed. He further said that the license of the responsible pharmaceutical companies should also be cancelled. He has requested that the court constitutes a judicial commission.
The egg-pelting incident took place on The Mall in front of the Punjab Assembly, which is sitting on the bill meant for revision of pay for the protesters for years, while The Mall and Hall Road traders took the law in their hands to implement the Lahore High Court decision imposing a ban on holding protest rallies on the road of bustling business centres.
The LHC decision was in fact passed after the Punjab government, in violation of its own decision, held a protest rally against the federal government of the Pakistan People’s Party about a month ago from Nasir Bagh, the starting point of The Mall.
It was the same road from where the traders bodies of The Mall, Hall Road and adjacent roads brought out rallies to join the main rally at Nasir Bagh and no one including the commuters on these roads protested against them since they were already off the roads leading to Nasir Bagh knowing well that they would find no way to go if they got stuck in the procession.
According to some sources in The Mall and Hall Road Traders’ Association, the decision to pelt the protesting nurses with rotten eggs had in fact been taken after the leadership disapproved various other suggestions including beating the protesters with batons and throwing water with the help of fire brigade tankers.
Ironically, no action has so far been taken against the traders association and their activists who in their quest to implement the LHC order of a ban on protest rallies on The Mall, violated the law for the sake of their business against the hapless nurses who chose to come on streets as a last resort to secure a respectable living for them and their families.
If the nurses have pelted stones on the traders and their shops, the law would have swiftly come into action, sending many of the protesters behind the bars.
There is a complete silence over the incident as nothing has happened since the victims in the case are hapless nurses. The custodian of ‘Takht-e-Lahore’ (Rulers of Punjab) has yet to issue a condemnation statement while the superior judiciary, famous for taking suo motu notice on as small a case as of Attiqa Odho’s alleged possession of bottles of liquor, has yet to take note of the matter which finds a space in headlines of all news channels and newspapers.
The hapless nurses of the province seek a revision in the pay structure for a long time and have failed to find their demands registered with the custodian of Takht-e-Lahore, Khadam-e-Aala Shahbaz Sharif, as he likes to be called instead of the chief minister.
Soon after becoming the custodian of Takht-e-Lahore for the second time, he showered the police force of the province with his blessings like a king and almost doubled their salaries seeing them as the real defenders of his rule. The aim was also to change the ‘Thana Culture’ but it remained a lip service as men in uniform despite being respected at the highest failed to change their habits and the people of the province have yet to see them coming up to their motto of serving the masses by shunning the century-old habit of acting on the behest of the powerful, rich and influential.
The nurses did saw the wastage of billions of rupees in the name of cheap bread (Sasti Roti Scheme) for masses and the Takht-e-Lahore securing political mileage aimed at nullifying the federal government’s decision enhancing the support prices for wheat.
The nurses watched quietly when their doctor colleagues snatched a pay raise by launching a successful movement across the province and by bringing the Takht-e-Lahore to its knees with the help of their aggressive struggle.
Needless to mention here that the Takht-e-Lahore’s tireless campaign against dengue fever, which is yet to die down, was completely fought by nurses by sacrificing their lives.
The protesting nurses are justified to question who will nurse them and fight for them when they need support and favour not only for a raise in their salaries but also to exercise their right to protest.
In Faisalabad, about 18 more patients have been confirmed to have suffered from dengue, making total number of dengue-hit patients 1397 in the city.
Likewise, Multan is not behind other cities of the country as 12 new dengue-affected patents have been admitted in the Nishtar Hospital. According to fact and figures, total number of patients has become 538 in Multan.
Aslam, a 50-year-old resident of Iqbal Town and 50-year-old Mubashir of Samanabad died in Ganga Ram Hospital while 30-year-old Shakil of Jaranwala passed away at Mayo Hospital Lahore. 99-year-old Rashid and Imran of Ghaziabad succumbed to dengue fever at the Services Hospital.
On the other side, 40-year-old Ghulam Murtaza fell a victim to the dengue virus in Chichawatni.
The number of dengue fever cases is also increasing in other cities including Faisalabad, Bahawalpur and Sargodha and Taxila. In Faisalabad, the number of dengue patients has reached 1,324 with registration of 15 new cases.
Moreover, the number of patients has reached 305 in Bahawalpur including six new cases. The number of dengue virus patients has rose to 232 in Sargodha and 90 in Taxila.
Official sources in Provincial Aids Control Programe (PACP) told The Express news 24/7 that they have registered 27 HIV-positive women in the past two years, of which 23 belong to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). Modern medicine has made it possible so that a baby will not be transmitted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from the mother.
Dr Nasira Yasinzai, coordinator of the centre, said that a recent survey showed that HIV-positive mothers can breastfeed their children for six months without any risk, but it is necessary for both the baby and the mother to use anti-viral drugs.
There are 832 AIDS-affected people in K-P and the tribal areas registered with the authorities. However as the majority of patients do not register themselves with the PACP the number is on the rise, an official said; since January 2007 only 27 women have been registered with the PACP, he added.
According to the PACP report, out of 832 registered patients, 593 are men, 197 women and 42 are children. The report also stated that Peshawar, with 105 out of the 832 registered, has the highest number of Aids patients. In addition to this there are 64 in Bannu, 59 in North Waziristan , 5 in DI Khan, 82 in Kohat, 4 in Karak, 13 in Lakki Marwat, 1 in Tank, 34 in Hangu, 20 in Nowshehra, 29 in Charsadda, 9 in Mardan, 30 in Swabi, 1 in Abbotabd, 3 in Mansehra, 1 in Batagram, 41 in Swat, 35 in Upper Dir, 32 in Lower Dir Lower, 1 in Kohistan, 3 in Shangla, 17 in Bunir, 3 in Chitral, 8 in Malakand, 40 in Khyber Agency, 14 in Orakzai, 41 in Kurram, 25 in South Waziristan, 9 in Mohmand, 8 in Bajaur and 4 HIV-positive cases registered in FR Kohat.
“We also have 83 patients from Afghanistan, five from Punjab and two from Zambia,” said Dr Sher Muhammad, Provincial Manager for AIDS Control Programme.
A British Heart Foundation spokeswoman said a third of young people in the UK were overweight or obese. The teenagers, aged between 13 and 17 had their blood pressure measured as part of school district health surveys and health checks. Their body mass index (BMI) - a measure of weight/height ratio - was also recorded.
There are two types of blood pressure which are measured. Diastolic pressure - the lower number in a reading - measures the force on the arteries between heartbeats. Systolic blood pressure, represented by the top number in a blood pressure reading, is the amount of force that blood exerts on blood vessel walls when the heart beats. High systolic measurements indicate risk for heart disease and stroke.
It was found obese boys were 3.5 times more likely to develop elevated systolic blood pressure than non-obese boys. But similarly obese girls were nine times more likely to develop elevated systolic blood pressure than their non-obese peers.
According to details despite precautionary measures, tall claims of provincial government and health authorities, deadly dengue virus has not been brought under control in the province.
Three among the deceased expired in Mayo Hospital while Akhtar Bibi 60, who was admitted some days earlier after being affected by the disease lost her life in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Sunday morning.
After Punjab, dengue has also turned its direction towards other provinces and large number of dengue cases have been reported in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa during recent days.
However, Punjab especially the provincial capital has been hit most by the virus where death toll has reached to 331 while number of dengue patients has crossed the 16,500 figure.
At least 430 people, mainly children, have died from an outbreak of encephalitis in a deeply neglected region of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.K.P. Kushwaha, chief paediatrician at the BRD Medical College in the state's hardest-hit Gorakhpur district, said it was one of the worst outbreaks of encephalitis in the impoverished region, which borders Nepal."The situation is grim and the epidemic is worse than previous years and with so many patients there are no empty beds at the hospital," Khuswaha said."We count such cases since January but most of these casualties have occurred since July."He said more than 2,400 patients have been admitted to government hospitals in the region so far this year of which at least 430 have died."Until Saturday, 336 children and 94 adults have died," Kushwaha told from the overcrowded hospital where patients were lying two to a bed.He said 262 patients were undergoing treatment in the state-run facility."Everyday between 30 and 40 patients are being brought in for treatment," he said.Some 215 people, a majority of them children, succumbed to encephalitis in Gorakhpur last year while the death toll from the disease in 2005 was more than 1,400 in Uttar Pradesh.
Eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh are ravaged by encephalitis each year as malnourished children succumb to the virus, officials say.
Encephalitis causes brain inflammation and can result in brain damage. Symptoms include headaches, seizures and fever.
Health experts say 70 million children nationwide are at risk of encephalitis.
Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, has been struggling for years with an encephalitis prevention programme, vaccinating millions of children against the virus.
Eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh are ravaged by encephalitis each year as malnourished children succumb to the virus, officials say.
Encephalitis causes brain inflammation and can result in brain damage. Symptoms include headaches, seizures and fever.
Health experts say 70 million children nationwide are at risk of encephalitis.
Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, has been struggling for years with an encephalitis prevention programme, vaccinating millions of children against the virus.
As the Punjab government struggled to battle the outbreak of the deadly disease, six more people succumbed to the dengue virus in the province, Express News 24/7 reported on Friday.
Three people lost their lives in the Services Hospital, one in Ganga Ram hospital while one person lost his life due to the epidemic in CMH Hospital.
The patients who died include 65-year old Zainab, 25-year-old Shafique, 50-year0old Nasir Bakhsh, 30-year-old Saba Zafar, 60-year-old Abdul Ghafoor and 55-year-old Kaneez Fatima.
225 people have lost their lives due to the mosquito-borne disease in Punjab. 210 victims are from Lahore alone.
Fear-mongering and a lack of awareness about the fever has helped cause panic in the region.
The Punjab government has spent Rs2.5 billion so far under the umbrella of dengue campaign but has not compensated a single casualty of the virus, Asif said, adding that the government should pay Rs500,000 to the relatives of dengue victims as compensation.
Three people lost their lives in the Services Hospital, one in Ganga Ram hospital while one person lost his life due to the epidemic in CMH Hospital.
The patients who died include 65-year old Zainab, 25-year-old Shafique, 50-year0old Nasir Bakhsh, 30-year-old Saba Zafar, 60-year-old Abdul Ghafoor and 55-year-old Kaneez Fatima.
225 people have lost their lives due to the mosquito-borne disease in Punjab. 210 victims are from Lahore alone.
Fear-mongering and a lack of awareness about the fever has helped cause panic in the region.
The Punjab government has spent Rs2.5 billion so far under the umbrella of dengue campaign but has not compensated a single casualty of the virus, Asif said, adding that the government should pay Rs500,000 to the relatives of dengue victims as compensation.
Three more patients lost the battle against dengue today. Two patients died in Lahore while one in Hafizabad. In Lahore 197 people have lost their lives. According to reports the number of dengue patients in other cities is also increasing.In Mayo Hospital Lahore, Nimra, 20, and Asif, 28, died of dengue virus. In Services Hospital Kaniz, 55, died today.In Hafizabad, Imtiaz, 25, lost his life. In Faisalabad 46 more patients were admitted to hospitals. In Nishtar Hospital Multan six more patients were confirmed to have dengue virus. The number of patients in Faisalabad has risen to 547 while in Multan officially 370 people have contracted dengue. In Bahawalpur, with eight new patients the total number has gone up to 248. In Sargodha, Gujranwala, Taxila and Mianwali there are 181, 107, 87 and 16 patients of dengue respectively.
President of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Youth Wing Rana Mubashir lost his life at a private hospital.
In the last 24 hours, 608 new cases were reported in Punjab, out of which, 461 cases were reported from Lahore.
The count of dengue patients in Punjab has now crossed 14,600 with 12,600 from Lahore.
CM Punjab announces plan to counter dengue
In an attempt to curb the menace, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that a plan to counter dengue in the winter has been created.
He said this while addressing a meeting in Lahore. Sharif said that a long term policy is also being chalked out to avoid the outbreak of the fever in the future.
Farhat Begum of Chamra Mandi was under treatment at Mayo Hospital where she passed away while 27-year-old Zuberia of Township lost her battle against dengue fever.
Shakeela of Gujranwala and Rafaqat Bibi of Bund road succumbed to dengue fever. Arslan of Bund road, Ali Raza of Nishtar and 60-year-old Safdar Khan of Shahdbagh were also among dead.
The identity of two victims is yet to be ascertained and patients with high fever continue to rush to different hospitals in the city.
The total number of people who have contracted the virus is reported to be at least 10,585 in Punjab, with 9,000 reported from Lahore.People have been visiting hospitals for Complete Blood Count (CBC) tests even if they are running a seasonal fever.An emergency has been imposed at several hospitals to cater to dengue patients.The government of Punjab has so far failed to control the epidemic from spreading.
A World Health Organisation (WHO) Emergency Health Team had reached Pakistan on September 25, 2011 to assess the situation on ground for its operations in response to the Government of Pakistan request for the Organisation’s support against the health crisis posed by the Dengue fever.
The concerned departments of WHO are planning to provide Pakistan the support in controlling the dengue outbreak in keeping with its standards and has dispatched a team of WHO experts on emergency basis for a need assessment and to train the doctors and paramedics with regard to treatment and vector control measures.
The leader of India's main opposition party went under the knife this week to help him lose weight, throwing the spotlight on increasing use of surgery to tackle the country's growing obesity problem.The president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nitin Gadkari, is one of a rising number of Indians now opting for weight loss (bariatric) surgery to slim down.
Muffazal Lakdawala, Gadkari's doctor at the Centre for Obesity and Diabetes Surgery (CODS) at the private Saifee Hospital in Mumbai, said the political heavyweight was recovering well after his gastric bypass.
"He's fine. He's stopped his insulin" for his Type 2 diabetes, he told on Thursday.
The surgeon said that Gadkari, who tipped the scales at 130 kilograms (287 pounds), was morbidly obese - medically, someone with a body mass index of more than 40 - but that his weight should fall in coming months.
"He should tentatively settle at around 80 to 90 kilograms within a year or a year and a half," he explained.
India is traditionally more associated with malnutrition and chronic food shortages than overeating and weight-related illness, but economic growth has had an impact on waistlines, particularly in urban areas.
The boom has brought a more sedentary lifestyle, while being able to eat oil and sugar-rich foods, particularly Western fast food, is seen as a visible sign of status and increased disposable income.
Between 1998 and 2005, the number of overweight adults in India increased by 20 percent, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study published in The Lancet medical journal last year.
Almost one in five men and more than one in six women are now overweight. In some urban areas, rates were as high as 40 percent, the study suggested.
Meanwhile, a separate study of 4,000 Indian children in 15 cities published last August indicated that almost a quarter (23 percent) of five to 14-year-olds in urban schools were overweight, while nearly 11 percent were obese.
Ramen Goel, a bariatric and metabolic surgeon at the state-run Bombay Hospital, blamed growing rates of obesity on lifestyle changes combined with a genetic predisposition among South Asian people to store more fat.
As a result, and due to greater awareness of the availability of the procedure, Goel's workload has increased drastically since he performed the first weight loss operations in India more than a decade ago.
At the turn of the millennium he carried out only about four procedures a year but that rate has now shot up to about 20 a month.
Likewise, Lakdawala said doctors at CODS carried out only one or two gastric bypasses a month when they opened in 2005 but now conduct about 30 a month. A number of their patients are politicians.
Gastric bypass surgery, such as Gadkari underwent, reduces the size of the stomach and length of the intestine that comes into contact with food, so the person eats less and absorbs fewer calories.
Other options include placing a gastric band around the stomach, which cuts the amount of food that can be consumed.
Lakdawala said that overweight and obese people were increasingly seeking surgery because a majority of them failed to shift excess body fat through diet and exercise.
But it also had other advantages, he said.
"This is the only surgery that can get rid of diabetes, hypertension, maybe uric acid and sleep apnoea all at once," he added, referring to conditions often associated with excess weight.
People who get fever are afraid of getting Dengue and are queuing in the hospitals for blood screening. Emergency has been declared in the hospitals but the problem seems uncontrollable by the management due to limited resources government hospitals and that is why patients are bound to go to private hospitals where they are over-charged.
Third round of fumigation to control mosquito breeding is continuing whereas many people complained that the teams did not reach to several areas for spraying.
Experts were called from Sri Lanka who met Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The experts were of the view that there is no short cut to deal with the epidemic but a long-term strategy is the need of time and only then Dengue virus can be controlled.
Shahbaz Sharif said that awareness campaigns have been launched to curb Dengue virus, however, public cooperation is crucial in this regard.
Dengue symptoms include lowered blood platelets accompanied by high fever, body rash and vomiting.
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif said a case would be lodged against those not providing free treatment for Dengue. Sharif has also directed the administration of private residential colonies to conduct fumigation drives.
A case pertaining to the spread of the virus is also being heard at the Lahore High Court (LHC). The court did not receive an answer from district government and health department officials and ordered that they submit their replies by September 16.
The court stated that people were dying from Dengue and high ranking officials were not concerned.
Opposition members in the Punjab Assembly also staged a walkout with a PML-N MPA claiming that the disease would be controlled within ten days.
499 new Dengue cases were reported in Lahore and 3,925 people are suffering from the virus. All educational institutions in the city have been closed for 10 days.
Eight Chinese engineers have also been infected with the Dengue virus and are receiving treatment at different hospitals of the city.
The situation is dire in Faisalabad as well where within a span of 18 hours, 35 new Dengue cases were reported. Overall 220 Dengue cases have been reported in the city.
With an alarming increase of dengue virus cases being reported in Punjab, the provincial government authorities are scurrying to control the epidemic from spreading further.According to the Punjab government, control cells have been established in Punjab, while medicines and fumigation of international standards are being imported.
Thousands of cases of dengue fever have been reported in Punjab, out of which more than 80 percent cases have been reported in Lahore.
His funeral prayers will be held today at 1.30 pm in GOR 5 Faisal Town. He has left a widow, two daughters and a son to mourn.Siddiqui joined government services in 1985.
Dengue virus is on the rampage in Punjab, where Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif Thursday directed the concerned authorities to purchase medicines and machines on emergency basis for elimination of dengue virus.
A Chinese national, working in Punjab Department of Information Technology became victim of the virus. He had been admitted to Jinnah Hospital, where doctors declared him to be in critical state with Platelets fell below 9000 count.
Punjab CM Sharif chaired a special emergency committee formed for the extermination of dengue virus. Shahbaz said anti-dengue drive was in progress on war footing, vowing to overwhelm the challenge with cooperation from the people and the experts.
He directed Health Secretary to himself inspect facilities at hospitals.
Meantime, Punjab Health Department recommended special measures to stem the growth of mosquitoes in educational institutions and posh areas.
Also, five patients admitted at Multan’s Nishtar Hospital were tested positive for dengue virus. Another patient was confirmed as dengue infected at District Hospital of Bahawalnagar.
Under section 144, all private and public swimming pools in Karachi have been closed for one month as a precautionary measure to deal with the growing threat posed by the dengue virus.
While briefing the media, DCO Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed said four towns were being fumigated on a daily basis.
The DCO added that when a dengue case is reported from a certain household, 20 nearby houses will also be fumigated.
This year, 200 dengue cases have been reported in Karachi and according to the DCO, in order to stop the breeding of dengue mosquitoes chemicals will be added to drains and dengue monitoring cells will be formed at the town.Secretary Punjab Mineral Development Corporation, Ataullah Siddiqui died of dengue fever Monday, South Punjab News reported. He was hospitalized on Friday after he was diagnosed with the fever.
His funeral prayers will be held today at 1.30 pm in GOR 5 Faisal Town. He has left a widow, two daughters and a son to mourn.Siddiqui joined government services in 1985.
Dengue virus is on the rampage in Punjab, where Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif Thursday directed the concerned authorities to purchase medicines and machines on emergency basis for elimination of dengue virus.
A Chinese national, working in Punjab Department of Information Technology became victim of the virus. He had been admitted to Jinnah Hospital, where doctors declared him to be in critical state with Platelets fell below 9000 count.
Punjab CM Sharif chaired a special emergency committee formed for the extermination of dengue virus. Shahbaz said anti-dengue drive was in progress on war footing, vowing to overwhelm the challenge with cooperation from the people and the experts.
He directed Health Secretary to himself inspect facilities at hospitals.
Meantime, Punjab Health Department recommended special measures to stem the growth of mosquitoes in educational institutions and posh areas.
Also, five patients admitted at Multan’s Nishtar Hospital were tested positive for dengue virus. Another patient was confirmed as dengue infected at District Hospital of Bahawalnagar.
Under section 144, all private and public swimming pools in Karachi have been closed for one month as a precautionary measure to deal with the growing threat posed by the dengue virus.
While briefing the media, DCO Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed said four towns were being fumigated on a daily basis.
The DCO added that when a dengue case is reported from a certain household, 20 nearby houses will also be fumigated.
This year, 200 dengue cases have been reported in Karachi and according to the DCO, in order to stop the breeding of dengue mosquitoes chemicals will be added to drains and dengue monitoring cells will be formed at the town.
Such factories not only contribute in spreading various deadly diseases, they also pose a direct threat to the lives of the patients. Most of these chemical factories have been set up just 50 to 100 feet from the hospital’s boundary wall and in the middle of the residential blocks. These are constantly omitting smoke, which again is spreading different dangerous diseases even among the hospital employees and the nearby residents.
Smoke, which is a major source of environmental pollution, is non-stop creating suffocation for the entire area. Further, noise from the heavy machinery installed in the factories is also a major source of mental health of the people of the area. The factories have been established by the business community in the residential locality, adjacent to the Bilal Ganj scrap market, in sheer violation of the Environment Protection Laws and bylaws of the City District Government Lahore, and the practice (of setting up factories) is going on unchecked. Atop of it is the negligent attitude of the hospital’s administration which had never complained to the Environment Protection Agency or the CDG authorities about this menace.
The locals told this scribe that they have sent many complaints to the EPA, who marked their applications to District Officer (Environment) Tariq Zam for taking a proper action against the violators, but all in vain. The authorities seem reluctant in taking a legal action against the factory owners because they are very influential,” one resident complained.
However, the authorities of concerned department sent officials for probing the matter, but they also were hesitating to interrogate the owners, he added.
The other residents said that a couple of days ago Fiaz Ali Khan, a resident of Street No. 7, Mohni Road, requested the owners of a chemical factory, Sheikh Jamil and Sheikh Babar, to have some mercy upon them (residents) and the patients of the TB Hospital and shift his factory from the current site. But strangely the Sheikhs scuffled with Khan, and the local police, without probing the matter, arrested both Khan and Sheikh Jamil.
A number of residents, including Shahid Hussain, Mehmood Ahmad, Hanif Mir, Muhammad Nadeem, Shahzad, Faizan, Pervaiz, Maqsood, Muhammad Basheer, Mehran Bibi and Kausar Bibi while talking to TheNation said that Sheikh Jamil and Sheikh Babar are running a chemical factory from a couple of years just 50 feet from the TB Hospital.
When tried to contact DO (Environment) Tariq Zaman for his version, one of his subordinates said he has gone abroad on an official tour. “No acting in-charge has so far been assigned by the higher authorities to replace Zaman,” he added.
