July 14, 2008	Monday	Rajab 10, 1429

HYDERABAD, July 13: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil inaugurated a water filtration plant in union council-No7 of the City taluka on Saturday. It has been built at a cost of Rs500,000.

The nazim said at the function that the filtered water had become a basic necessity and it was on top of district government’s priority list.

He said that the UC had constructed the plant from its own funds and the plant would benefit a population of 4,000 people of the locality.

The federal government had planned to install one filtration plant in each union council but he would endeavour to install at least two more filtration plants from the UC’s funds to provide filtered water to maximum number of people, he said.

SOLID WASTE: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has asked the representatives of USAID to provide technical support to the district government for disposal of solid waste in a scientific manner.

Talking to a delegation of USAID, which called on him at his office on Saturday, the nazim said that disposal of refuse in scientific manner created a bulwark against environmental pollution.

INQUIRY: Sindh Information Minister Shazia Mari has said that an inquiry has been ordered into the death of a woman at the Liaquat Univercity Hospital the other day.

Khamiso Khan Malokhani said that his wife was ill and he brought her to the LUMHS hospital (City Branch) on July 11. He claimed that if the doctors on duty had paid proper attention to her, she might have been saved.

The minister said that if the negligence of doctors were proved, strict action would be taken against them.

She said the matter was brought to notice of provincial health minister who had ordered inquiry into the matter.

She said this kind of negligence could not be tolerated.

RALLY: A number of People’s Party activists brought out a rally from the district council building to the press club on Sunday.

They were raising slogans for the appointment of Sindh council member of the party, Amir Khan Zardari, as an adviser to the Sindh government.

They said that Amir Khan Zardari deserved to be appointed as an adviser because of his sacrifices services for the party.