FAISALABAD, Jan 30: The Punjab government is taking measures to improve the facilities at the rural health centres and basic health units.

This was stated by Punjab Minister for Social Welfare Shaheen Atiqur Rahman on Wednesday. She was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the newly-established dialysis centre in the National Trust Hospital set up at a cost of over Rs5 million.

She said that private trust hospitals were extending commendable services to the ailing humanity.

The minister visited the CCU, emergency and general wards, midwife training school, pathological laboratory and other sections of the hospital.

The minister was informed that over 1,500 patients benefited annually from the facilities at the hospital’s dialysis centre. Deserving patients get free treatment which cost over Rs1.5 million annually.

National Welfare Society president Dr Nauman Khursheed informed the minister that some shopkeepers who have shops in hospital premises had not paid rent for the last many years. These shopkeepers owe over Rs3.8 million to the hospital.

The minister said that the district administration would be asked to negotiate with the shopkeepers to resolve the issue.

MURDERED: A woman was murdered allegedly by rivals over a property dispute in Chak 94-RB here on Wednesday.

Over a dozen men, including Muhammad Ali, Abid, Sohail, Fazal Din, Khalid and Qaisar Mehmood, attacked the house of Abdul Ghaffor and shot his wife dead.