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GUJRANWALA, April 5: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has expressed concern over extrajudicial killings of doctors in Karachi.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, the PMA leaders urged the government to curb growing incidents of murder.
They slammed unchecked irregularities in autonomous civil hospitals, demanding steps for action against those involved.
The association threatened to go on a strike from Monday, if the health ministry overlooked their demands.
UPLIFT SCHEMES: The district development committee meeting on Friday urged the government functionaries to get completed ongoing uplift schemes within the stipulated period.
Presided over by the DCO, the meeting was told that Rs7.366 million had been allocated for uplift schemes in union council No 73 to 76, including Naveed Colony, Mominabad, Chak Telianwala, Abadi Mehr Wazir and Data Gunj Bakhsh.
It was further informed that Rs2.117 million were earmarked for sewerage schemes in union council No 62/98 and 63/99 and Rs0.507 million for the construction of 1,500 feet long drain.
Heads of the Gujranwala Development Authority (GDA), Wasa, Public Health and Highways departments also attended the meeting.
STRIKE: The Gakkhar Town literary organization has planned to go on a strike from Monday against Wazirabad tehsil Nazim for constituting a wagon adda in front of municipal library.
At a meeting on Friday, they claimed the adda had been created after bulldozing the library’s boundary walls.
They alleged the tehsil Nazim would collect jagga tax from the transporters. The strike would continue till elimination of the adda, they concluded.
