June 10, 2008	Tuesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 05, 1429

KARACHI, June 9: The Sindh Labour Minister, Amir Nawab, said that the government was making all-out efforts for the improvement of health care facilities in the interior parts of the province so that workers in those areas could also avail themselves of improved health facilities.

The minister, who is also the chairman of the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (Sessi), was speaking to the staff of the Social Security Medical Centre at Dhabeji. He said that the Sessi was spending over Rs770 million — almost 70 per cent of its budget — for the provision of medical facilities to the workers annually.

The minister, responding to some of the demands made by the centre’s medical officer, Ismail Palijo, ordered that a refrigerator be provided so that hepatitis A, B, and C vaccines could be stored safely at the centre.