MULTAN, April 23: The Environment Protection Department has issued notices to some 17 private hospitals in the city for their failure to follow guidelines for proper disposal of solid waste.
District officer (environment) Khalid Mahmood visited private hospitals on Wednesday and found that none of them had incinerators to dispose of the solid waste.
According to a handout, the EPD team observed that doctors at these hospitals were used to throw syringes/injections without decapitating them. Only the Medicare Hospital had a syringe cutter. Solid waste of the hospitals was found oozing out of open drums lying in corners.
Hospital owners were directed to ensure proper disposal of solid waste and used syringes otherwise a legal action would be taken against them.
The team visited Al-Khaliq Patient Care Hospital, Rahman Medical Complex, Fatima Medical Centre, Naeema Medical Complex, Shahab Laboratories and Medical Centre, Jinnah Hospital, Al-Huda Hospital, Husain Medical Centre, Life Poly Clinic, Yousaf Medical Centre, Multan City Clinic, Kaswar Hospital, Al-Raheem Hospital, Khalid Bin Waleed Hospital, Medicare Hospital, Faisal Hospital and Siyal Medical Centre.
BAR CONDEMNS: The Lahore High Court Multan bench Bar Association has demanded suspension of the Vehari district police officer and a subordinate to him for torturing some senior lawyers.
A meeting of the association was called here on Wednesday to discuss the incident of lawyers’ humiliation. Bar president Syed Ahmad Raza Bokhari presided over the meeting.
Later on a press note was released which claimed that Vehari DPO Syed Javed Ali Shah, notorious for fake encounters, called on lawyers Masoodur Rauf and Abdul Khaliq in his office on Tuesday and asked them to contest the cases of his friend, Chaudhry Saeed. The lawyers, however, refused to do so.
This infuriated the DPO who called the police from the Wahinwal police station and handed over the lawyers to them. The police subjected them to severe torture which landed Masoodur Rauf to hospital, while Abdul Khaliq was locked in the police station in a fabricated case.
Protesting against the Vehari police highhandedness, the Bar warned that if the officials responsible for the incident were not taken to task, the lawyers community would resort to a protest drive.