Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to the medical students to volunteer their services to the Punjab government for protecting their sisters, brothers and elders in distress in the flood affected areas from epidemic diseases. This was revealed in information of DGPR received here on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister said that epidemic diseases might spread out at large scale in flood-affected areas and Punjab government had evolved effective strategy to control the diseases. He said that medical teams comprising specialist doctors had reached in these areas and medicines worth millions of rupees had been provided in hospitals, dispensaries and relief camps.
He said that fumigation should be carried out in those areas by helicopter where medical teams could not reach due to destruction of roads. The Chief Minister expected that due many affectees, a team of doctors and paramedical staff would be needed to meet this challenge in the coming days and appealed to the doctors and other staff to get themselves registered voluntarily in the office of Secretary Health for the service to the flood-affectees.
Later on, addressing to the affectees at Jampur, the Chief Minister said that he had issued instructions to the administration to provide two times meal to the affectees at Iftar during holy month of Ramazan. He said that number of affectees was not less than 20 million and these people had high hopes from their 150 million brethren. He hoped that the nation should demonstrate the same spirit, which it had displayed at the time of earthquake of 2005.
The Chief Minister was given a briefing by the administration regarding flood situation at Kot Addu. He was informed that roads of Layyah, Daira Din Panah and Kot Addu have been opened and all marooned people had been evacuated successfully from these areas.