NAWABSHAH, March 4: Some workers of the PML-Q (youth wing) on Monday went to the Taluka Hospital Sakrand and disrupted a meeting which was going on between the medical superintendent and representatives of the World Health Organization about the anti-polio campaign.

The workers demanded of the medical superintendent to contribute some cash for a cricket match. When the medical superintendent refused to do so, they started beating him up. The latter fled immediately after the incident.

The angry doctors went to the National Highway where they held a sit-in in protest against the PML-Q workers.

They demanded the immediate arrest of the PML-Q workers.

The district Nazim, Faryal Talpur, and the DCO, Abdul Qadir Mangi, arrived at the spot and assured the protesters that action would be taken against the culprits.

Later, the medical superintendent, Dr Ismail Khokhar, lodged an FIR against the president, PML-Q (youth wing), Shaukat Arain; its general secretary, Aijaz Solangi; and one of its activists, Sain Dino, with the Sakrand police.

ACCIDENT: A two-year-old girl, Ashiana, was killed and four other people were seriously injured when a car overturned on the National Highway, near the Sakrand bypass, on Monday.

The injured were taken to the Peoples Medical College Hospital, Nawabshah.

WATER: The Sindh government has released Rs99.51 million for providing clean drinking water for the citizens of Nawabshah.

This was stated by the district Nazim, Faryal Talpur, while briefing the director design, Nazir Ahmed Soomro, and the superintendent engineer, Public Health, Ghulam Sarwar Shaikh, at the DCO office on Tuesday.

She asked the public health engineering officials to make sure that the sewerage system worked properly.

ANTI-POLIO CAMPAIGN: Nawabshah DCO Abdul Qadir Mangi, inaugurated the anti-polio campaign by administering drops to children at the Lakhmir village, near the airport, on Tuesday.

The campaign, which had started on March 4, would continue upto March 6.

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