GUJRANWALA, Feb 11: Various ongoing health projects worth Rs60 million will be completed during the current fiscal year. This was stated by executive district officer (health) Dr Zafar Iqbal Niazi and district health officer Dr Saadullah at a joint briefing here on Wednesday.
They said the construction of a cardiology unit at the Civil Hospital at a cost of Rs22.092 million and a dispensary in Talwandi Musa Khan village at a cost of Rs1.5 million have already been completed. They said the Naushera Virkan rural health centre was being upgraded as tehsil headquarters hospital at a cost of Rs13.819 million.
They said Rs2 million would be spent on the renovation of DHQ, Rs1 million each for Wazirabad and Kamoki civil hospitals and Rs 50,000 each for 10 rural health centres. They said Rs32.2 million were spent for the provision of medicines to DHQ hospitals and rural health centres during last fiscal year.
ROBBED: Highwaymen robbed a bus carrying marriage procession, two motorcycle rickshaws and a car near Kamoki on Wednesday. A marriage process was going to Nangal Dona Singh village from Gujrat. When it reached near Meh Chattha village three highwaymen intercepted it.
They snatched cash, gold jewellery and other valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees at gunpoint and escaped. They beat some passengers who put up resistance.
Four robbers intercepted two motorcycle rickshaws on same road and snatched cash and gold jewellery from passenger at gunpoint. Later, they stopped a car and deprived driver Rafiq of cash, wrist watch and a mobile phone.
WORKSHOP: A workshop on the World Trade Organization was organized by the national tariff commission and the local chamber of commerce and industry here on Wednesday. Participants in the workshop urged traders and industrialists to acquire knowhow about the WTO laws to compete in the world market.
The speakers, including tariff commission director-general Naeem Anwer, director Mazhar Bugish and chamber president Sheikh Shaukat Javed, said that industrialists and traders did not need to worry about the WTO, which would help promote industry by improving the quality of products.
They pointed out that around 149 countries had signed the WTO agreement. They said that the free trade concept was not against the WTO and every nation was free to accept or reject an international subsidy in accordance with its own interests.
