LARKANA, Sept 4: The Sindh health secretary has issued show cause notices to two assistant professors for not providing medical cover to a VVIP.

Sources told this correspondent on Saturday, Dr Aslam and Dr Kheo Ram Dholia were assigned to accompany the convoy of acting president and Senate chairman Mohammedmian Soomro from Moenjodaro to Sehwan Sharif on July 11.

The two consultant doctors escorted the Senate chairman up to Rehmani Nagar (Sita) town. On this, assistant professor (Dr) Sher Mohammed Shaikh and assistant professor (Dr) Akbar Solangi were asked to accompany the VVIP.

The medical superintendent of Chandka Medical College Hospital, Dr Shahbaig Chandio, had called for disciplinary action against the two doctors.

KILLED: A demonstrator in the department of pharmacology, Chandka Medical College, Dr Zaheer Pathan, was killed in a road accident on Friday.

He was hit by a rickshaw on the VIP road. He was shifted to the CMCH where he died.

ACCIDENT: Seven passengers were injured when a Larkana-bound van overturned on the Indus Highway near Nasirabad town on Saturday.

The driver of the van had applied emergency breaks while saving buffaloes crossing the highway. The vehicle went out of his control and overturned.

The injured - Shaukat Kalhoro, Riaz Shaikh, Latif Teevno, Sabhaee, Hakimzadi and others - were admitted to the CMCH.

BLOOD BANKS WARNED: Owners of blood banks and laboratories in the district have been advised to get their laboratories registered in ten days or face legal action.

It was decided in a meeting here on Thursday which was presided over by District Nazim Khurshid Junejo.

The meeting was told that not a single laboratory or blood bank was registered with the Sindh Safe Blood Transfusion Authority in the district.

The meeting was informed that about 72 blood screening laboratories were working without registration of which only 3-4 had been found fit.

A committee, comprising the principal of the Chandka Medical College, the medical superintendent of the CMC hospital, EDO health, DPO, DO revenue and pathologists of the CMC, was constituted to oversee the process of registration of blood banks.

The committee was authorized to issue notices to unregistered laboratories in order to control wrong screening of blood.

The meeting decided that the Sindh health secretary might also be approached for high-level help to regularise laboratories in the district specially in the Larkana city in the interest of patients from upper Sindh and Balochistan.