MIRPURKHAS: Price of flour goes up

Published January 20, 2004

MIRPURKHAS, Jan 19: The price of flour has increased from Rs12 to Rs13 per kg as only four flour mills were operating in the city. Though they are bound to sell flour at Rs11 per kg to the shopkeepers as fixed by the Sindh government but they are selling it to them on retail rate of Rs12 per kg, causing an increase of Rs1 in the market.

Shopkeepers said flour mills were even not giving original bills for sale of flour. An official of the food department on the complaints conducted raids at the different places and issued show cause notices to the Chundija flour mills and Noor Shah flour mills and stopped their fifteen days wheat quota. Sources said after ten days wheat quota of these mills was released.

FREE MEDICAL CAMP: A one-day free medical camp was organized by the Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation in collaboration with a British NGO the Sun on Sunday.

Some 1,700 patients of different diseases were examined in the camp by Dr Balchand, Dr Zafar Kamali, Dr Jawaid and ENT specialist Dr Aslam Gilo. Medicines and ECG facilities were provided to the patients free of cost in the camp.

EDO health Dr Fazal Yousfani said free medical camps should be hold on large scale and the other NGOs should come forward to provide health facilities to the poor by organizing the free medical camp.

ROBBERY: The Aga Khan Laboratory, collection unit, on the Umerkot road was robbed by two motorcyclists on Saturday night. The two armed men reached the laboratory and one of them entered the unit and held hostage Faisal and looted Rs17,200 cash.

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