KARACHI:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh Wednesday warned of staging march towards Chief Minister’s House if the genuine demands of nurses are not accepted.
According to details, Sheikh along with the PTI workers today visited the protest camp of nurses in front of Karachi Press Club (KPC) to express solidarity with them. He talked with Sindh Nurses Alliance President Aijaz Kaleri and announced to support their demands. On the occasion, PTI PMA Dr Saeed Afridi and Raja Azhar were also present.
Talking to media, Shaikh said he had also participated in the protest of nurses a few months ago. He asked Bilawal if these nurses are not our daughters. He said the government had promised to resolve their problems, but the finance secretary was not sending their summary for approval. He said commissioner and secretary health were also telling lies to the protesting nurses. He said the PPP MPAs should have visited the protest camp of nurses.
He said previous day he saw on TV that a five-month-old AIDS patient Asifa died, but the PPP government was unmoved. He said the government was yet to set up AIDS treatment center for children in the constituency of Faryal Talpur. He said the Sindh health department was apathetic towards the basic health issues of people of Sindh. He said if a notification for acceptance of the demands of nurses was not issued by the evening, tomorrow morning they would march towards the CM House along with the protesting nurses.
Shaikh said he had submitted resolutions on the AIDS issues in Sindh but they were not being allowed for debate in Sindh Assembly. He said the resolutions of ruling party for getting released thieves and dacoits were allowed for debate immediately. He said the federal government had handed three hospitals to Sindh on the request of Sindh health minister Azra Pechoho. He said running a hospital is a small thing; we will soon run the whole province of Sindh.
MPA Saeed Afridi said for last 13 days the nurses had been protesting, but the government had turned deaf ear to their cries. He said the torture of police on nurses recently was shameful. He said the hospitals of rural areas of Sindh lack basic facilities. He said the PTI would resolve all burning problems facing people of Pakistan.