QUETTA: Farah Azeem Shah, Spokesperson for provincial government, has said rescue and relief operations in rain affected areas of Balochistan province were going on in full swing in compliance with the directives of Chief Minister Balochistan, Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, she said that from the outset, government was striving to safeguard the lives and properties of the people and accordingly provide relief to the people of rain affected areas.
Urging the people not to pay heed to rumours, she said that the incumbent provincial government would not let its people alone in that period of adversity, adding that free medical camps were being set up in far flung areas of the province in order to get the rain affected people treated.
She said that steps were being taken to extend treatment facilities to the rain affected people in the free medical camps and ensure providing free of cost medicines to them. She said that rescue and relief operations were being conducted in the rain affected areas by the district administration, PDMA, Pak Army and other departments, adding that Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) was active to ensure timely supply of relief gears to the rain affected districts.
She said that 2500 blankets, 243 solar lights, 3400 packets of edible items had already been dispatched by the PDMA to the affected areas, adding that on the directives of Chief Minister Balochistan, MI-17 helicopters had been spared for taking part in aerial relief operations to be conducted in bordering areas of the province. She said that death toll in torrential rains and flood related incidents across the province had reached to 65.