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MIRPURKHAS, Sept 25: Sh-ortage of oxygen cylinders may pose a threat to the lives of patients in the government hospitals of Mirpurkhas and Umerkot districts.
Report said that a few oxygen cylinders for operation theatres were insufficient for patients at the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital which were provided at wards to save lives of critical patients.
Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital Civil Surgeon Dr Roshan Ali Bhatti said the supplier was responsible for the shortage of oxygen cylinders. He said that the hospital was left with only a few cylinders which were reserved for critical patients only.
When contacted, supplier of oxygen cylinders, Rana Tariq, said that he was supplying the life saving gas cylinders to Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and other districts.
He said he had been managing these cylinders from a depot at Hyderabad which was damaged due to a blast. As an alternate, he said, he was now purchasing the cylinders from a Karachi-based multinational company which observed two weekly offs. This might have caused the shortage, he added.
STRIKE: On the call of the Citizens Action Committee, strike was observed in Jhuddo on Tuesday to protest against unannounced power loadshedding in the town on daily basis.
The protesters blocked the main road of the town by raising hurdles and burning tyres which led to suspension of vehicular traffic for sometime. Some angry protesters pelted vehicles with stones. Shops in the markets and bazaars remained closed.
The protesters raised slogans against the Hesco officials and called upon the company chief executive to take notice of their plight and direct the officials concerned to bring an end to loadshedding.
Heavy contingents of police were deployed in the town to prevent any untoward incident.
KILLED: Two men were killed in two different incidents in Jhuddo taluka on Monday night.
Zulfiqar Ali Jatt shot his father-in-law Mubashir Ahmed dead in Jhuddo town over a domestic dispute.
The body was taken to the Jhuddo taluka hospital. The Jhuddo police have registered a case against Zulfiqar Ali.
In another incident, Ali Bux Buledi, 40, was axed to death by Chaudhry Rafiq Ahmed in Naukot town.
The motive behind the killing is said to be a dispute over buffalo theft.
The Naukot police have registered a case against Rafiq Ahmed.
RAIDS: The police in raids at different hotels picked up six Afghan nationals here Monday night.
Among those picked up, Fazlur Rehman, Mohammad Janan, Ameer Khan and Saleh Jan are students of a madressah and the two others have lived in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
