GUJRAT, May 10: The X-ray machine at the Dinga Rural Health Centre has been out of order for the last one month, causing inconvenience to the people living within the precincts of the infirmary.

A number of residents of these areas told this correspondent on Sunday that they have either to go to private clinics or to the Kharian THQ Hospital. "Private clinics charge exorbitant fees and the transportation of patients to Kharian and back also costs much," they said.

Ashraf of Chak Jani said that three men thrashed him and fractured his left arm. When he visited the RHC to get a medico-legal certificate, a duty doctor informed him that the X-ray machine was out of order and referred him to the Kharian THQ Hospital.

He went to Kharian for the X-ray and again visited the RHC to obtain the MLC. He got medical treatment more than 24 hours after the incidence when he could get the case registered.

Dr Ashraf of Dinga RHC said that he had twice tried to get the machine repaired. Medical Superintendent Dr Khalid Pervaiz Mir of Kharian THQ Hospital said that actually the RHC had been without a X-ray machine.

CASE NOT REGISTERED: The Civil Lines police refused to register a case against the Gujrat Tehsil Nazim on the complaint of opposition leader. According to details, Tehsil Nazim Chaudhry Saadat Nawaz Ajnala and his associates allegedly beat up opposition leader Ghulam Abbas Malhi over a minor issue at a ceremony.

The police refused to entertain the complaint of Mr Malhi. Later, PPP district president Mian Mushtaq Hussain Pagganwala and former MNA Nawabzada Ghazanfar Gul met DPO Raja Munawar Hussain and demanded that a case should be registered against the Nazim.