September 3, 2003	Wednesday	Rajab 5, 1424

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SARGODHA, Sept 2: Six jeep riders were killed and as many bus passengers injured in a head-on collision between the two vehicles on Tuesday evening on the Sial-Midh Ranjha Road, some 54 kilometres from here.

A passenger bus (LS-4576) was going towards Mandi Bahauddin via Midh Ranjha. When it reached near Chak Khanan Colony, it collided head on with a jeep (FDG-1062) due to faulty headlights as a result of which four jeep riders were killed on the spot while the fifth died on way to hospital and the sixth succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. Of the six injured bus passengers, two were reported to be in a serious condition.

The dead people could not be identified till the filling of this report.

DISPENSER: A dispenser is running a hospital near railway station since January as no medical officer has been deputed there.

When this scribe visited the hospital on Monday, dispenser Jamil Saqi was attending to patients.

It is learnt that the medical officer of a Malikwal hospital has been given additional charge of this hospital but he did not bother to visit Sargodha. In his absence, the dispenser is managing the hospital affairs and treats patients.

The dispenser also checks vendors at railway platform on behalf of the medical officer and imposes fine on the vendors selling unhygienic food items.

A vendor told this scribe that he was fined Rs145 on Aug 31 and issued receipt No 344512. Interestingly, the receipt, issued by the ticket collector, shows that he was fined for travelling without a ticket. It is alleged that the dispenser was minting a huge sum daily in connivance with the ticket collectors.