KASUR, Feb 28: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has donated equipment worth about Rs500,000 for neonatal resuscitation of the DHQ Hospital’s Paediatric department.

Reports said that a delegation of doctors, headed by Dr PMA Lahore secretary-general Azeemuddin Zahid Lakhvi, visited the DHQ Hospital on Thursday. The delegation, which also comprised Dr Habibur Rehman Soomro and Dr Nisar Ahmed, was received by EDO (Health) Dr Muhammad Jamil and pediatrician Dr Qamar Arshad, Dr Khalid Hussain and other staffers.

The visitors took a round of different wards of the hospital and emphasized the administration to provide better treatment facilities to the patients.

Later, the PMA representatives donated equipment, including photo therapy unit, baby warmer, nebulizer, suction machine, ambo bag, stethoscopes and ear thermometers.

They expressed the hope that the poor patients would be benefited from these equipment.

It may be mentioned that two babies had died for want of suction machine in October last.

Dr Lakhvi said that such equipment had already been provided to 15 other state-run hospitals in Punjab.

EDO (Health) Dr Jamil Ahmed said that doctors should take proper care of the poor patients who were unable to afford treatment in private clinics and hospitals.

He condemned the doctors for running private clinics while working at government hospitals.

CONDEMNATION: About 70 tehsil naib nazims, including more than a dozen women naib nazims, in a meeting held here on Thursday ripped to shreds the Tehsil Municipal Administration for unsanitary conditions in the city.

The meeting was also attended by newly-elected PML-N backed MNA Sheikh Waseem Akhtar from NA-139 and MPA Naeem Safdar Ansari from PP-177.

Headed by tehsil nazim Agha Naveed Hashim Rizvi, a majority of naib nazims expressed their concern over the unhygienic conditions.

Chief sanitary inspector Chaudhry Asghar Ali was called during the meeting and taken to task for showing negligence.

Explaining his position, the chief sanitary inspector said the absence of any ‘dumping place’ in the city was the prime reason for the poor state of hygiene. He said that the sanitary staff was forced to dump the rubbish in the open.

BOYCOTTED: Lawyers boycotted the court proceedings and took out a rally here on Thursday.

Wearing black armbands, the protesting lawyers took a round of the district courts and chanted anti-Musharraf slogans.

Later, the lawyers held a meeting at the bar auditorium under the leadership of DBA president Sardar Qurban Ali Dogar.