Buzdar urges people to follow SOPs to prevent corona
Punjab CM Usman Buzdar during his visit of Koh-e-Sulaiman region urged the people to follow SOPs to prevent corona.
The Chief Minister said that pressure on hospitals is increasing due to the increase in corona affectees. The increase in the death rate is alarming. Mask is the only preventative measure. Human lives can be saved by following corona SOPs.
He urged people to stay at home and remain safe and avoid going out unnecessarily. Rush in market places is resulting in the rapid increase in corona affectees. The situation could lead to drastic measures if precautionary steps are not taken.
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has directed to enhance the number of ventilator and oxygen beds immediately besides ensuring the availability of oxygen cylinders in the hospitals.
The chief minister warned that 3rd wave of coronavirus is getting worst and an increase in the number of patients is putting immense pressure on the medical system. In the wake of present circumstances, the number of ventilators and oxygen beds should immediately be increased he added.
Usman Buzdar further directed to ensure the availability of oxygen in all the hospitals of the province at any cost and directed to make a constant liaison with the oxygen supply companies and take all necessary steps keeping in view the demand and supply.
He said that the availability of oxygen cylinders should be ensured at fixed rates. Usman Buzdar has issued directions to the health minister and secretary specialized healthcare & medical education in this regard.
Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar met with the notables of the area, party workers and people during his visit to Taunsa. The people of the area thanked the chief minister for completing development projects worth billions of rupees as well as launching new projects. Usman Buzdar said that roads, dam, hospitals and schools will be set up in backward areas. Public welfare-oriented schemes are the right of people of remote areas as the government believes in composite development and progress in all remote areas.
Usman Buzdar said that he is the lawyer of impecunious strata in the provincial metropolis. He said that former rulers have not only deprived Taunsa but the whole of Southern Punjab of the development and progress. The first time through District Development Package, development funds are being distributed justifiably.
He said that 16 new cement factories are being installed in Punjab out of which three will be constructed in DG Khan.