'Winter Safety Media Campaign': SSGCL seeks legislation on special heaters manufacturing

The Senior officials of the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) has emphasised the need to legislate for manufacturing and sale of a special designed gas heater which should be automatically turned off in case of suspension of gas supply and not release gas in restoration of gas supply until the consumer itself turns it on, adding only this method could save costly lives from deaths caused by filling of gas in the room while sleeping.
This was said in a seminar "Winter Safety Media Campaign" organised by SSGCL at a local hotel here on Thursday. It was attended by Deputy General Manager SSGC Corporate Communications Ms S Nasreen Hussain, Deputy General Manager SSGCL Distribution Haroorn-ur-Rasheed, Deputy Chief Manager SSGCL Media Relations Inayatullah Ismail, the Chief Engineer P & D Agha Muhammad Baloch, the Zonal Manager Anwar Baloch and the Acting Chief Manger Customer Services Shamsullah Kakar and a large number of media persons.
Speaking to journalists, Rasheed said sub-standard gas heaters were being manufactured and sold in markets which causing suffocation to death because of gas leakage and automatically releasing it in case of gas supply restoration after a little suspension of the supply.
Ms Nasreen said in western countries, as per the rules and regulations, companies were bound to manufacture gas heaters, which automatically turned off in case of gas supply suspension due to any reason. She maintained that after restoration of gas supply, those heaters did not release gas until the consumer turns them on.