DADU: Seven booked for water theft
DADU, Feb 23: Seven landlords of Dadu district were booked on charges of water theft on Sunday.
A team of irrigation department engineers, led by Habibullah Kabooro, raided the Bego Dero Distributary, Pahore Waterway and Johi Barrage, originating from the Dadu Canal, and found watercourses 1-AR, 3L, 9L, 17, 21, 89, and 12L tampered with.
The team sealed the watercourses and lodged FIRs against landlords Usman, Khair Mohammad, Bashir, Mir, Taj Mohammad and Anwar Panhwar with the Johi and Khairpur Nathan Shah police stations.
When contacted, executive engineer Kabooro said waterways originating from the Dadu Canal and Johi Branch would be kept under observation and FIRs would be lodged against water thieves.
He said the department had completed desilting of 21 waterways to provide water to tail-end growers and added work on remaining waterways would begin on April 5.
He said flow of water was improving in the River Indus and the Dadu Canal was now receiving 2,200 cusecs of water.
GHOST DOCTORS: The civil surgeon of the Dadu Civil Hospital, Dr Javed Ahmad Dawach, has said reports about ghost doctors and other staff have been sent to authorities of the Sindh health department for legal action.
Speaking at a seminar on “Services And Behaviour Of Staff With Patients At the Hospital”, organized by the civil Hospital here on Sunday, Dr Dawach said requirement of specialists doctors had also been sent to the high-ups.
He said efforts were being made to provide all kinds of medical facilities to patients at the hospital.
He said the hospital was functioning without orthopaedic and chest departments, adding it had only one ambulance in working condition and the administration was facing problems in shifting patients to other hospitals in case of emergency.
He asked patients, NGOs and residents of the area to send complaints to him against corrupt and ghost staff so that action could be taken against them.