LAHORE: The PML-Q has said suffering of the Lahore blast injured have multiplied because of lack of facilities at hospitals.

“Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is responsible for the lack of even necessary facilities at public hospitals who has done nothing in the health sector,” PML-Q senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Tuesday on reports that the city hospitals were not equipped enough to treat blast injured well.

He said during the last nine-year tenure of Shahbaz in Punjab only in Lahore more than 800 civilians lost their lives in terrorism.

“Patients are suffering in public hospitals because of insufficient medicines and beds. The chief minister and ministers visit hospitals after every terrorism incident for a photo session. But no one care that the injured people are in need of medicines and facilities and not bouquets,” he said.

Mr Elahi said if Mr Sharif had not destroyed the government hospitals in Punjab during nine years, the lives of hundreds of injured persons could have been saved.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2017

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