Ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) government has stopped supplying surgery equipment and Rs 300 million budget of operation theatre for Multan Institute of Cardiology, which exposes hollowness of their claims about facilitating, equipping and showering funds on southern Punjab for uplift, said an opposition MPA Dr Javed Siddiqui here on Monday.
He added the PML government widely propagandised providing Rs 1 billion for setting up of the MIC and politically cashed the project too but without required infrastructure, it is just a structure that has not yet been completed after a lapse of three years while only an OPD and a dispensary are working there.
The MPA appealed the PML legislators and ministers from southern Punjab to join hands with him in the interest of people instead of being pressurised by the Punjab chief minister and governor in this regard and advised them they should put their priorities straight and join the people's voices on rights.
The PML government is not only discriminating with southern Punjab in MIC matter but also exploiting the educated youth and depriving them of jobs through recommended political quotas, Dr Siddiqui held and added a large numbers of cardiac patients still travel from Multan to Lahore for ordinary heart surgeries due to lack of required facilities at MIC while the children complex cum dispensary set up by the government here cannot be compared with Lahore children complex at any level.
The MPA mentioned the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had released of Rs 7.5 billion for provision of better civic amenities in southern Punjab four years ago but the PML government is not ready to release a single penny from the grant and is reaping mark up. In the end, the MPA expressed the PML government would face consequences of its discriminatory policies in the forthcoming elections as the people would vote against the regime.