HYDERABAD, July 22: Sindh health secretary Dr Ashiq Memon has called for regular meetings of the water monitoring committee headed by the district nazim.

The committee was formed under directives of the Sindh government on June 5, but its notification was not issued due to change of the Sindh chief minister and the provincial government.

Talking to this correspondent on Thursday, Dr Memon said the notification of the committee would be issued soon.

He said another committee to supervise the working of the district nazim would also be formed soon. He said that regular meetings of the committee would help ensure monitoring of quality of drinking water being supplied to the people.

The committee is supposed to check the supply of water in collaboration with HDA and Wasa officials.

It might be mentioned that around 42 people died due to consumption of contaminated water in the city after water of the Manchhar lake was released into the Indus river through the Aral Wah on May 15.

Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister for Health Faisal Malik has said that admissions of postgraduate medical students, found guilty of violating hospital rules, would be cancelled by the provincial health secretary.

Speaking to journalists in the health services director- general's office on Thursday, he said that the working of such students would be monitored by respective medical superintendents and, if found lacking in discipline, they would be issued three consecutive explanations by their medical superintendent.

He also made it clear that land in the Hyderabad Civil Hospital would not be given to the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan for its regional centre as it would hinder future expansion of the hospital.

He urged local bodies representatives to get basic health units, being used as wheat godowns and guest houses, vacated and used as health facilities.

He formed a three-member committee to inquire into the death of a young boy, Om Parkash, in the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital, headed by Services Hospital civil surgeon Dr Abdul Rehman Memon, it would submit its report in three days.