BAHAWALPUR: The district environment department has served notices on 40 government and private hospitals and clinical laboratories over their failure to dispose of medical waste.

District Officer Environment Ansar Abbas said the teams during a 10-day campaign visited 47 health facilities and found 40 of them lacking waste disposal system. These facilities, he said, neither had their own incinerators nor had they any agreement to collect their medical waste for disposal.

These hospitals and labs could be prosecuted in green court or environment tribunal in Lahore, he said. He said 80 private waste centres and auction houses also were checked but no medical waste was found.

PROTEST: Schoolchildren’s parents have protested against increase in fees by private schools.

Some parents said the private schools had enhanced their monthly fees from Rs700 to Rs2,000 a month which had made things difficult for them. They demanded that the government take immediate notice of the highhandedness of the private schools.

PTI LEADER: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) South Punjab president Senator Aun Abbas Bappi has asked his partymen and government officials to serve the masses and divert their energies towards the solution of the basic problems.

Speaking at a party convention and a meeting of government officials here, he explained the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan and said the prime minister was working for the welfare of people and the country. At the party convention, the local office-bearers and workers raised their own difficulties with regard to the resolution of the problems of the common man.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2021