Day: August 24, 2022

Lahore, August 24, 2022 (PPI-OT):Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi presided over Disaster Management Ministerial Committee meeting being held at CMO today. Provision of relief activities relating to the flood affected areas in Rajanpur, Taunsa and Dera Ghazi Khan came under review.

CM directed Chief Secretary Kamran Afzal to visit the flood affected areas forthwith and further directed him to oversee the relief activities for the flood affectees. CM further directed to expedite rescue and relief operation and all institutions should help the flood affectees in a unison manner. He stated that unexpected water came into the streams of Koh-e-Suleman due to torrential rains.

CM vowed that the Punjab government will not leave any stone unturned to help their affected brothers and sisters in the prevailing situation. It was decided during the meeting to enhance the financial aid of the heirs of the deceased persons due to heavy flood and rains. He disclosed that we would redress the losses being occurred to the houses, fields and the livestock.

CM directed to timely provide food to the people in the relief camps and directed to ensure provision of dry edibles and food hampers to the affectees present in the relief camps. Parvez Elahi directed to increase the number of medical camps in order to prevent the infectious diseases in the affected areas adding that the Livestock Department should ensure provision of surplus fodder for the animals as well.

CM directed to provide essential facilities to the affectees in the relief camps. Provincial Minister Raja Muhammad Basharat, Syed Abbas Ali Shah, Sardar Asif Nakai, Ali Afzal Sahi, Dr. Akhtar Malik, Brig. (R) Ejaz Shah, Chief Secretary Kamran Afzal and concerned officials attended the meeting.

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Lahore, August 24, 2022 (PPI-OT):Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Provincial Minister for Primary and Secondary Health Dr Akhtar Malik and Shahbaz Ahmad MPA administered anti-polio drops to the children at his office on Wednesday. The CM stated that more than 22 million children, under five years of age, would be given anti-polio vaccines in the national anti-polio campaign ending on August 28. More than two lakh workers would go door-to-door to protect children from poliovirus, he added.

Thanks to Allah Almighty, no polio case has come to light in Punjab since October 2020; he said and pointed out that Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur and Lahore would be given special attention due to positive environmental patterns.

Positive environmental patterns are a clear message that parents must give their children anti-polio vaccine drops, he stressed. We must adopt every measure to protect our children from poliovirus; the CM asserted and emphasised that all must play their role to eliminate polio to secure the future of the children. Umar Farooq MPA, Chief Secretary Kamran Afzal, Principal Secretary to CM Muhammad Khan Bhatti, secretary health, secretary information, DC Lahore, focal person of UNICEF and others were also present.

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Lahore, August 24, 2022 (PPI-OT):A PTI leader and former federal minister Parvez Khattak met with Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi at his office and discussed matters of mutual interest including rehabilitation of flood affectees. Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain and former federal minister Moonis Elahi were also present.

Parvez Elahi pointed out that line departments have been fully mobilized for the rehabilitation of the flood victims.

The government has announced a special aid package; a waiver of water and land revenue charges in flood-hit areas by declaring them calamity-hit as the provincial government was firmly standing with the flood victims, he said. Meanwhile, I went to Rajanpur and Taunsa to meet the victims and assess the situation, he added.

The Punjab government has provided the best possible resources for the rehabilitation of the victims. Pakistan Army teams are also helping the civil administration in their rescue and relief operations; the CM said and thanked Corps Commander Multan and Pakistan Army for their timely support.

Similarly, the services of police, administration, PDMA and rescue 1122 are also commendable as the rescue teams of the Punjab government are reaching out to every affected person; he mentioned and maintained that this is the time to go beyond mundane politics and help the distressed denizens.

It is a pity that the PMLN has not stopped politics even on an issue like a flood as the politicization of human lives is the usual modus operandi of the PMLN. There is no fear of Allah Almighty in their hearts, nor the pain of suffering humanity, he lamented. Parvez Khattak praised the steps taken by the Punjab government under the leadership of CM Parvez Elahi for helping the flood victims on time.

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