LAHORE: The Punjab authorities has issued directions to droop from service the chief govt officer (CEO) and District Well being Officer ( DHO) Dr Fazalur Rehman and one other official following the dying of kids as a consequence of measles.
There have been reviews that 10 kids died of measles in Khanewal and Kasur and the federal government launched investigations to carry information to public.
In keeping with the reviews, 5 youngsters every died in Kabeerwala of Khanewal and Pattoki, Kasur.
The well being authorities dispatched separate groups of senior medical academics and public well being officers to the 2 districts for investigation into the measles deaths.
Sources stated the well being authorities have been concealing the measles outbreak in Punjab and focusing merely on growth tasks to please the chief minister.
They stated the tasks of improve and renovation of a number of hospitals in Punjab have been happening and the well being secretary and the minister have been paying frequent visits to supervise the schemes.
The official sources stated the reviews of outbreak of the measles began surfacing some weeks again however nobody from each bothered as they’d prioritised the event tasks to fulfill the deadlines given by the CM.
In the meantime, they stated, deaths of some kids occurred and because the matter got here to the highlight, the well being minister and the secretary shifted focus in direction of the measles emergency.
The suspension of the well being officers was made to simply divert consideration of the federal government, the sources stated including that it was open and shut case of negligence of the 2 prime well being officers.
Printed in Daybreak, Could twenty ninth, 2024