GUJRANWALA, March 4: Three X-ray machines at the divisional headquarters hospital here have not been working properly for the last three months.

A number of patients and their attendants told this correspondent on Saturday that the X-rays produced by the machines were not clear. Most patients have to get their X-rays from private radiologists.

They said that the hospital administration was charging Rs55 while the health department had fixed Rs15 for a X-ray.

DHQ Hospital’s radiologists Dr Ishtiaq Safdar Tarar and Dr Anjum Javed Sudho said that the three X-ray machines had been declared unrepairable by the technical staff.

The hospital administration had requested the health department high-ups to get the fourth X-ray machine repaired.

They said that the hospital had to purchase X-ray films from the market and that was why patients were being charged Rs55.

killed: A woman and her alleged lover were killed by a cousin of the woman in Hindu Chak on Saturday.

Police said Bushra eloped with Arshad a few days ago. They came back some days later. Bushra’s cousin Ghaffar went to their houses and strangled them. He threw the body of Arshad near the People’s Colony while the boy of Bushra was recovered from her house.