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BAHAWALPUR, June 2: The Punjab government has approved the establishment of three new wards at the Bahawal Victoria Hospital. These are paediatrics surgery, thalaessemia and burn units. Funds for establishment of these wards will be allocated in the next financial year's budget.
The government has also finalized arrangements to provide an angiography machine worth Rs20 million to the hospital, which lacked this facility and the patients had to travel to other cities for cardiac treatment.
A burn unit was to be established here during the current financial year, but it was delayed because of alleged negligence of the authorities concerned. Acid-attack victims and others with burns were previously shifted to other hospitals.
EXECUTION: A convict of the Kahror Pucca tehsil in Lodhran was executed at the new central jail on Wednesday morning. Earlier, Faiz Muhammad was to be hanged last month, but on the directive of the Lahore High Court, Multan bench, his execution was postponed.
Faiz, along with four other accused, was held by Kahror Pucca police in 1992 for the murder of four people. He was handed down death sentence by a trial court and his conviction was upheld by the high court. Later, the president dismissed his appeal for mercy.
STUDENT: A girl student, who was abducted a week ago on the college premises, could not be recovered till Wednesday. Ms Shazia, an MA history student, was abducted on Wednesday last.
Meanwhile, the Anjuman-i-Tulaba Islam of the Islamia University at its meeting demanded of the police to recover the student. It claimed that its rival student organization's were involved in the abduction.
Meanwhile, the university's public relations department in a clarification claimed that Ahmad Shah Nadeem, who was nominated in the FIR, was not on the rolls of the Seraiki department from where he was expelled in 1996-97 for his false statement about his admission.
