Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the devastation and huge loss of precious lives in Balochistan due to recent rains and flood.
He averred that people of Punjab equally share the grief of Balochi brothers on this time testing occasion and ready to take all possible measures to take them out from this disaster. He expressed these views talking to media-men while seeing off the medical teams along with relief goods to Balochistan at the Lahore Airport on Tuesday.
Punjab government has sent various teams of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff including 77 doctors, 12 nurses, 42 paramedics from Mayo Hospital, Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore General Hospital, Services Hospital and Kot Khawaja Saeed Hospital along with four trucks of anti-snake venom, IV drips and others through a special C-130 plane to assist the flood-affected areas of Jhal Magsi, Buzdar, Turbat and others.
40 trucks of food items are also being sent, which include flour, rice, pulses, ghee, sugar, dry milk, cooking oil, tea to the calamity stricken areas of Sibbi, Jaffarabad, Nasirabad, Jhal Magsi and others, he informed.
He added that financial assistance of fifty million rupees had earlier been sent. On the occasion the minister said he has also sympathised with Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Yousaf and assured him to continue all out assistance to meet every need of its Balochi brethren in future.
At the end, he expressed his gratitude to all doctors, nurses and paramedical staff for offering their services for this great cause of humanity. He said that instructions have also been issued to Nazims and DCOs of all districts of Punjab to take all out measures for the relief of people of the devastated province.
Provincial Health Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal, Chief Secretary Punjab Salman Siddique, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister G M Sikandar, Secretary Health Raees Abbas Zaidi, Secretary Relief & Crisis Management Brigadier (Retd) Syed Ghazanfar Ali and Medical Superintendents of different hospitals were present on the occasion.
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