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SIALKOT, May 16: A 14-year-old boy fell unconscious on being told by the medical officer at the Government Sardar Begum Memorial (DHQ) Hospital after his ultrasound examination that he had an “ovary” in his belly.
Sources said Mohammad Bilal of Pasrur had gone to the hospital for an ultra-sound examination as he was feeling pain in his belly. Medical Officer Dr Hafiz Khalid conducted his ultra-sound examination and allegedly reported that the boy had the female reproductive organ in his belly.
When the boy’s relatives objected to the report, Sialkot Assistant District Health Officer Dr Mohammad Arshad Bajwa again conducted the boy’s ultra-sound examination and termed the medical officer’s report wrong, saying that the boy had no ovary.
The EDO for health has launched a probe into the matter.
AASIM MIRZA DIES: Prominent local novelist and poet of Urdu and Punjabi languages, Aasim Mirza, died here at the age of 80 after a protracted illness.
He was laid to rest in his native graveyard in the presence of hundreds of mourners. He had served as a secretary to the Pakistan Writers’ Guild and the Halqa Arbab-i-Zauq.
Industrial growth: Punjab Industries Minister Muhammad Ajmal Cheema said on Friday the government had formed a strategy to improve industrial sector in the province.
Talking to newsmen, he said special attention would be paid to set up industries in rural and urban areas. These industries would provide costly agricultural implements to the farmers, he added.
He also said well-equipped stitching centres would soon be established in Sialkot, Daska, Gujranwala and other parts of the province in collaboration with Korea. “The project will help train people for jobs,” he hoped.
The minister pledged that the government would offer various incentives to the investors willing to establish new industries here. Besides, special export policies would be evolved for the Sialkot’s businessmen, Mr Cheema said.
Surgical units: The surgical forging industry took out a protest procession against the Sialkot sales tax department on Friday.
They have been observing strike for the last seven days against ‘unjustified’ actions of the sales tax department.
Addressing the processionists, their leaders urged the prime minister to take notice of unjustified action of the sales tax department and help restart their business.
EROSION: More than 1,200 acres of land in Bajwat has been eroded during the last one month by the river Chenab.
The Kahliyaan union council adopted several resolutions urging the Punjab government to announce a relief package for the villagers whose land had been eroded.
Meanwhile, Punjab Minister for Industries Ajmal Cheema visited the affected villages and assured the people that the government would announce a relief package for them soon.
