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TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 3: A Lahore-based laboratory has said that some medicines supplied by the Punjab Rural Support Programme (PRSP) to rural health centres and basic health units of the district were substandard, it is learnt.
A district drug inspector raided a rural health centre and obtained samples of Disprin and a syrup and sent them to a laboratory in Lahore for tests. The laboratory declared the two medicines substandard.
Local Pakistan Medical Association President Dr Afzal Duggal has complained to the health department about the problem. A source said PRSP officials withdrew these medicines from health centres and health units after the laboratory report.
POWER SUSPENSION: Electricity supply could not be restored to the main PTCL exchange, Qazi Street, Gujjar Basti, Maal Godaam Road and other areas even after nine hours. The electricity supply to these areas was disrupted after the area’s transformer broke down.
A PTCL official said Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) officials were informed about 9am, but they reached the scene at 1pm. The Fesco executive engineer said the transformer had burnt and it would be replaced.
DEMAND: The services of dozens of irrigation department employees have not been upgraded as announced by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi.
Irrigation employees’ representative Allah Bakhsh Sial said on Wednesday an official notification of service upgrade showed that several low-rank officials of the department were not included in the service upgrade. He said services of all grade 1 to 16 employees should be upgraded.
