The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed Punjab Medical Teaching Institution (Reforms) Bill 2019 and Punjab Agricultural Marketing Regulatory Authority Bill 2019 rejecting all the amendments proposed by the opposition.

The opposition members belonging to PML-N, Waris Shad, Khawaja Salman Rafique and Dr Mazhar Iqbal while expressing their views on the Punjab Medical Teaching Institution Bill said this bill will destroy the whole health care system of the biggest province of Punjab. They also said that the government had passed the bill in hurry without taking into consideration the after-effects of the bill. They said when this system was a total failure in KP then why the PTI government is replicating it in Punjab.

While showing their reservations on the bill, the opposition members said that the government servants had not been given any protection in the bill. They said this act will not be proved useful unless the bill was not accepted by doctors, nurses and paramedics.

Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat while responding to the criticism of opposition said that the bill was presented in the House after complete deliberations with the stakeholders including doctors, paramedics and nurses. He also said that Standing Committee on Health passed the bill unanimously. He categorically said that there is no threat to government servants at all. He said the PTI government had recruited doctors in large numbers thorough Punjab Public Service Commission during the past 18 months.

While responding to Raja Basharat, Dr Mazhar Iqbal said the bill was not passed unanimously in the standing committee but with majority.

PML-N MPA Tariq Masseh Gill raised the issue of murder of young Christian Saleem Maseeh by influential land owners of Kasur. Speaker Punjab Assembly took the notice of the matter and announced that the issue will be discussed in Thursday's session. The questions relating to Communication and Works Department were answered by Minister Sardar Asif Nakai.