SIALKOT, June 21: As many as 20 Basic Health Units (BHUs) and four Rural Health Centres (RHCs) have no water supply, sewerage and boundary walls and the district government is spending Rs4.79 million on providing these facilities.

This was stated by Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid while talking to newsmen here on Sunday. The Nazim announced the import of a CT Scan-MRI facility for the under-construction trauma centre at the Allama Iqbal Memorial (DHQ) Hospital in active collaboration with local businessmen and philanthropists.

He said that 70 per cent of the construction had been completed. An ultra-modern "Burn Unit" was also being established at the trauma centre. The government was spending Rs55m on it.

He said that construction of the Kot Bhukraan BHU was under way at a cost of Rs4.848 million while the government dispensary at Sambrial-Daska had been upgraded to hospital level at a cost of Rs20 million.

Booked: A case was registered against five policemen by the Hajipura police on the orders of the Lahore High Court. The order was issued on a writ petition filed by exporter Aslam Butt against Uggoki police station former inspector Wasim Dar, SI Anwar Farooq, ASI Amjad and two other policemen.

Mr Butt submitted on Dec 24, 2002, that the police burst into his house and beat up women on offering resistance and took away valuables. The took him to the Uggoki police station where they tortured him and released him after receiving heavy bribe. No arrest has been reported.

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