SUKKUR: Load-shedding in Sindh towns

Published September 26, 2006

SUKKUR, Sept 25: Following massive country-wide power breakdown on Sunday due to fault in transmission lines at Ghazi Barotha gird station the Hesco has started load-shedding in Sukkur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Kandhkot, Ghotki and other areas.

Officials at the Sukkur grid station said that they had received verbal instructions from the Hesco chief executive in this regard and were carrying out 30-minute to hour-long load-shedding on rotation basis.

People face great hardships especially when they offer Taraveeh prayers in 42 to 45 degree Celsius.

Livestock: The director of Sindh Animal Husbandry, Hyderabad, cautioned on Monday that there was likelihood of an outbreak of haemorrhage septicaemia, foot and mouth and enterotoxaemia diseases in animals during the months from October to December 2006 in the province.

He advised the livestock owners to get their animals vaccinated against the contagious diseases dispensary or centre in time. All the necessary vaccines had been made available at the veterinary hospitals.

EYE CAMPS: The Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital has chalked out schedule for organizing free eye camps from September 26 to November 2.

According to the schedule, the first camp would be organised on September 26 at Basic Health Unit Babar Bara, Kotdiji taluka, second on September 28 at Rural Health Centre, Miro Khan, Larkana, third on October 3 at Basic Health Unit, Bhiria Road, fourth on October 5 at Basic Health Unit, Dakhan, fifth on October 10 at Basic Health Unit, Jamra, sixth on October 12 at Basic Health Unit Liyari, Kotdiji taluka, the seventh on October 17 at Basic Health Unit, Sui Sharif, eighth on October 19 at Basic Health Unit, Kumb, Ninth on October 31 at Rural Health Centre, Bhiria City and tenth on November 2 at Government Primary School, Kolab Jial

FREED: Police claimed on Monday to have freed two brothers, Zahid Mochi and Abdul Basit Mochi, who were kidnapped from Pano Akil on the midnight of Saturday and Sunday, after an encounter with the kidnappers.

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