SUKKUR, March 25 Federal minister for labour Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that the government was very much alive to the problems being faced by womenfolk in the field of healthcare and taking all out efforts to provide modern health facilities of mother and child care.

Addressing a seminar titled “Mother and Child Care” held in Kandhra under the aegis of Paimaan, an NGO, he said that special attention was being focused on providing better mother and child care facilities in less developed areas of the country, to bring them at par with the developed ones.

Khursheed Shah said that recommendations have been made to appoint twelve doctors, including lady doctors, at rural health center, Kandhra and taluka hospital Pano Akil to provide better health care facilities to mother and child.

A large number of doctors attended the seminar, while MPA Dr. Nasrullah Baloch, EDO Health Sukkur Dr. Tariq Abbas Dareshani, DCO Sukkur Asadullah Dharejo, special advisor to Sindh chief minister Pehlaj Rai, Iftikhar Ahmed Mallah and Waseem Akhtar Abro of Paimaan also spoke on the occasion.

ENCOUNTER A villager and an armed dacoit were injured in exchange of fire in village Purani Budh in Dadlo police limits near Pano Akil.

A group of dacoits barged into the house of Hazoor Bux Deho and tried to rob households. In the meantime, residents woke up and resisted the attempt. On this the dacoits opened fire, injuring Hazoor Bux Deho.

When the dacoits were fleeing, the area police reached on the spot and as a result of exchange of fire Abbas Chachar was arrested in injured condition.

Later both the injured were shifted to taluka hospital pano Akil from where they were referred to Civil Hospital Sukkur.