The PTI-led coalition government which came into power on the promise of providing health and education facilities to the people of Punjab failed to maintain the quorum when the treasury benches presented The Punjab Medical Teaching Institution (Reform) Bill 2019 in the House on Monday.
The quorum was pointed out by PML (N) MPA Warris Shaad Kalu. Earlier, while responding to a question, the health minister admitted that the MRI machine in Jinnah Hospital was not in order for the last few months because of non-filling of Helium gas. She also said that the government had placed the order for the purchase of gas from abroad. She hoped that the machine will be operational very soon.
She said the PTI government is committed to providing health facilities to the people. It had purchased 272 ventilators which are fully operational. She alleged that PML (N) government had failed to install ventilators in the hospitals during their tenure.
She said the government is bringing Punjab Medical Teaching Institute Bill for the betterment of hospitals. "This is not the privatisation of hospitals as boards will be maintained for each of them. They will look after the financial and administrative matters of hospitals."
Earlier, The Punjab Village Panchayats and Neighbourhood Council (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 was laid in the House while Baba Guru Nanak University Nankana Sahib 2020, The Code of Criminal Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2020 and Kohsar University, Murree Bill 2020 were introduced in the House. Opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Shaif while talking to media outside Punjab Assembly said that records of price hike were broken during the tenure of PTI government.
He also said that economic indicators were not moving in the right direction. He said that inflation had reached to 14 percent. The stock market was showing bearish trend.
The opposition from the very first day had offered the government to talk with them on charter of economy.He also alleged that National Accountability Bureau was taking action with out any proof. Hamza said that in the past party had faced difficult times. He expressed his hope that difficult time will end soon and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif will come back soon. Earlier, Provincial Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Basharat while giving briefing to the media on the ongoing session said that the government is not being told what treatment Mian Nawaz Sharif is taking in London and how long it is to be completed. It has been twenty weeks since Nawaz Sharif left Pakistan, but no one heard that he was admitted to a hospital for treatment, though we have said many times to come back. The law minister said the recent session had a full agenda that would lead to new legislations and pre-budget discussions. The issue of the Orange Line Metro train will also be discussed in Punjab Assembly and we will bring four bills including Bana Grunanak University bill. The Minister said that we made better legislation and gave the opposition a chance but it could not play its role.
"To get the opposition along, speaker issues a production order, but not one of the jailed or detained legislators seems interested in legislation. They do not even attend the meetings of the Standing Committees. The opposition did not talk about law and order in the House."
Raja Basharat said that despite the opposition leader's production order, he neither came for four seconds in a four-day assembly session nor spoke a single word for his voters. He said that Hamza Shahbaz talks about his business at the assembly, keeps busy in meeting with friends and spends time with the conspirators but does not pay any attention to honour the vote.
Raja further said, "Opposition legislators keep chanting slogans on the stairs of the Assembly but do not speak in the House. We say that the opposition might disagree, but by expressing its point of view, the other person's position should be heard and corrected. It should harmonise it with the government and serve the people together."
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