MUZAFFARGARH: Six more dialysis machines have started working in Muzaffargarh District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.

Dialysis centre in-charge Dr Maqbool Alam said 221 patients from the district were currently being treated at the centre without any charge. So far, 1,509 dialysis patients had been treated who included 1,066 male and 415 female patients. He explained each dialysis cost was Rs3,000 and a patient got it every month.

He said in the month of June, six more new dialysis machines were sent by the health department which had started working now. As a result of the new addition of machines, there were no patients left on the waiting list, Dr Alam added.

While Dr Hassan Raza Hashmi said most of the patients being treated at the hospital were below the age of 30.

INJURED: Seven officials of the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) were injured after receiving electricity shocks as they shifted a pole in tehsil Alipur.

The Mepco officials did not cut off the electricity supply from the Alipur Grid Station while the workers were shifting the pole. As a result, five assistant linemen, namely Muhammad Waris, Muhammad Yaqoob, Amir, Ghulam Esa and Nadir, and two linemen, Arif and Amir Manzoor, received electric shocks and were injured.

Rescue 1122 shifted them to the Alipur Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for treatment. The superintendent engineer has ordered a probe into the incident.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2018