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District administration Bahawalpur has decided to launch an annual laudatory award "Shan-e-Bahawalpur" to recognize the outstanding services of the citizens in different fields from 14th August 2016

BAHAWALPUR(PR)District administration Bahawalpur has decided to launch an annual laudatory award "Shan-e-Bahawalpur" to recognize the outstanding services of the citizens in different fields from 14th August 2016. A four member committee for finalizing the nominations in this regard has been constituted. This was stated by District Co-ordination Officer Bahawalpur Dr. Ehtisham Anwer Mahaar.

The four member nomination committee is headed by prominent intellectual, Malik Habibullah Bhutta while chairman, Department of History Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Dr. Shahid Hassan Rizvi and Principal, College of art and design, Islamia University, Bahawalpur have been included as members. Deputy district officer human resource management, Muhammad Tayyab would serve as a secretary of the nomination committee.

District Co-ordination Officer further said that both proposals and nominations for considerations of the nomination committee might be sent till July 31st.

Shan-e-Bahawalpur would have 2 categories to recognize the outstanding services of the nominees which include: - Life time achievement and annual award.

District Co-ordination Officer further said that Shan-e-Bahawalpur annual award is a practical manifestation to pay tribute for the exemplary and the glorious services rended by the citizens of the District in the wide ranging areas which include:- Sports; Literature; Lok Wirsa; Culture; Education; Health; Agriculture; Science and Technology.

DCO said that the award giving ceremony would have the joint collaboration of Islamia University Bahawalpur and various government departments.

All patients who got sick after eating substandard and unhygienic sweet and got admitted at Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital are in stable condition:Dr. Ehtisham Anwer Mahaar

BAHAWALPUR(PR)District Co-ordination Officer Bahawalpur, Dr. Ehtisham Anwer Mahaar has said that all patients who got sick after eating substandard and unhygienic sweet and got admitted at Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital are in stable condition. The patients admitted in the hospital's Accidents and Emergency department are being extended best medical cover by mobilizing all available resources. He made these remarks during a visit of Bahawalpur Visctoria Hospital to inspect the measures taken regarding the medical treatment provided to the patients at the hospital. He was accompanied by EDO health Dr. Shahid Khaliq; Assistant Commissioner Bahawalpur city Rao Tasleem Akhter; District health officer Dr. Saeed Asghar; Director Accidents and Emergency department of BVH Dr. Amir and other officers and officials of the concerned departments.

DCO was briefed by the director Accidents and Emergency department BVH Dr. Amir about the different medical measures taken by the hospital authorities which include:- washing of the stomach of the patients immediately after their admission in the hospital and sending of the blood and food samples of the patients for chemical examination at the pathological lab. EDO health Dr. Shahid Khaliq informed the visiting DCO that the admitted patients are being properly looked after and they are out of danger. He informed DCO that 5 patients who have been admitted in the hospital include:- Zohaib Arshad from Lodhran; Rahil Victor from Rahim Yar Khan; Muhammad Aslam from Model town 'C' Bahawalpur; Manzoor Ahmad from Moza Pakka Laaran tehsil liaqatpur and Muhammad Safdar from Karachi Mod Bahawalpur.

Meanwhile on the directions of the DCO Bahawalpur Dr. Ehtisham Anwer Mahaar local administration has sealed the concerned sweets shop "DATA Sweets and Bakers" chowk Saraiki Bahawalpur which sold the substandard and unhygienic sweet to the customers who got sick after eating it.

Punjab government has banned employment of children and restricted the recruitment of adolescents, 15 to 18 years of age, for hazardous occupations and processes through “Punjab Restriction on Employment of Children Ordinance, 2016”

LAHORE(PR)The Punjab government has banned employment of children and restricted the recruitment of adolescents, 15 to 18 years of age, for hazardous occupations and processes through “Punjab Restriction on Employment of Children Ordinance, 2016” promulgated last day by order of Governor Punjab under the clause(1) of Article 128 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The ordinance significantly protects children and adolescents against any form of slavery or practices such as their sale and trafficking, debt bondage and serfdom, forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment for use in armed conflicts. It bans the use, procuring or offering of a child or adolescent for prostitution, production of pornography or for pornographic performances, and illicit activities, particularly the production and trafficking of drugs. Its third major aspect is the regulation of the work of adolescents at occupations and processes which are not hazardous to guard against their exploitation. The ordinance regulates the employment of adolescents for work that is not hazardous by different means, also fixing their working hours. It says an occupier (employer) shall not require or permit an adolescent to work in the establishment in excess of such number of hours as may be prescribed. The occupier shall fix the period of work of an adolescent on each day which shall not exceed three hours. And if he is required to work for more than three hours in a day, the occupier shall provide a mandatory interval of at least one hour for rest to him immediately after three hours of work. The total period of work of an adolescent in a day, including mandatory interval for rest, shall not exceed seven hours. The ordinance disallows work of an adolescent between 7pm and 8am, or overtime and says the working hours should not clash with the school or educational institution timings of the adolescent, allowing him a weekly holiday. Employing or permitting to work a child in an establishment is punishable with up to six-month imprisonment which shall not be less than seven days, and with up to Rs50,000 fine which shall not be less than Rs10,000. There is up to six-month imprisonment, up to Rs75,000 fine or both for employing or permitting any adolescent to indulge in any hazardous work. The second conviction means up to five-year imprisonment which shall not be less than three months. Enslaving children and adolescents or using them for immoral activities, prostitution, drug production or trafficking shall be punished with up to Rs1 million fine which is not less than Rs200,000 or up to five-year imprisonment, or with both. The guardians or parents in whose immediate presence the children and adolescents are found working in contravention of this ordinance shall be equally punished along with the employer. Presence of a child or an adolescent within the working premises of an establishment shall be presumed as his employment. The ordinance defines the hazardous work as transport of passengers, goods or mail, catering establishment at a railway station involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from one platform to another or into or out of a moving train, construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines, a port authority within the limits of any port, inside underground mines and above ground quarries including blasting and assisting in blasting, power driven cutting machinery like saws, shears, guillotines and agricultural machines, threshers, fodder cutting machines, live electrical wires over 50 volts. Other occupations include all operations related to leather tanning process, mixing and manufacture of pesticides and insecticides, and fumigation, sandblasting and other work involving exposure to free silica, exposure to all toxic, explosive and carcinogenic chemicals, cement dust in cement industry and coal dust, manufacture and sale of fireworks and explosives, work at the sites where Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is filled in cylinders, work on glass and metal furnaces, glass bangles manufacturing, cloth weaving, printing, dyeing and fishing sections, inside sewer pipelines, pits and storage tanks, stone crushing, lifting and carrying of heavy weight (15kg and above) specially in transport industry, carpet weaving, working two meters or more above the floor, scavenging including hospital waste, tobacco processing and manufacturing including niswar and biri making, commercial fishing and processing of fish and sea-food, sheep casing and wool industry, surgical instruments manufacturing specially in vendors’ workshops, spice grinding, work in boiler house, work in cinemas, mini cinemas and cyber clubs, soap manufacturing, building and construction industry

PROVISION OF MEDICINES TO HEPATITIS PATIENTS IS CONTINUE

LAHORE(By Our Bureau Chief)A Spokesman of Primary & Secondary Healthcare Department Punjab has said that sovaldi tablets are being supplied to the hepatitis patients at the centers. The spokesman further said that out of 80 hepatitis treatment centers established in the hospitals, 34 centers have lifted their stock from the Directorate General Health Services while the remaining have been asked to immediately collect the quota of sovaldi tablets for their registered hepatitis-C patients.

            The Spokesman further said that the remaining hospitals have telephonically been asked to collect the medicine and distribute to their patients. He disclosed that 180 tablets required for each patient. 

DECISION TO SET UP REHABILITATION CENTERS AT DIVISIONAL LEVEL

THREE CENTERS AT SARGODHA, RAWALPINDI AND BAHAWALPUR WOULD BE COMPLETED DURING THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR

LAHORE(By Our Bureau Chief)On the direction of Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, it has been decided to establish rehabilitation centers for disabled persons at divisional level in the province. Three centers at Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur would be set up during the current fiscal year on which Rs.100 million would be spent. In this project, International Council for Red Crescent (ICRC), Chal Foundation and Indus Karachi would extend cooperation to the Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department.

                        It was disclosed by the Secretary Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department Najam Ahmed Shah while presiding over a meeting regarding establishment of rehabilitation centers, in his office, here today. Additional Secretary Development Zaheer Abbas Malik, Chief Operating Officer Chal Foundation Dr. Bakht Sarwar, Head of delegation ICRC Reto Stocker and other concerned officers of the department also attended the meeting. It was informed that land has been identified for three rehabilitation centers at Bahawalpur, Sargodha and Rawalpindi. Secretary SH&ME directed that the process of transfer and possession of land should immediately be completed with the help of Commissioners and DCOs of the concerned divisions. He directed that PC-I for the construction of the said centers also be prepared immediately. It was informed that 100 million rupees would be spent on the construction of the centers while government would provide land for this purpose. Moreover, Rs.90.00 million would be annual recurring expenditure for the provision of artificial limbs to the disabled persons and their rehabilitation. CEO Chal Foundation Dr. Bakht Sarwar revealed that 4500 patients would get benefit from these rehabilitation centers. Najam Ahmed Shah directed that the scrutiny of the complete designs of the centers, requirement of human resource, operational expenditures etc. must be completed within a week. He also directed to convene the next meeting in the coming week so that the project should be started on fast track basis.

Government stands with the grieved family, rape victim Christian girl is not unclaimed; the accused has already been arrested from the day one:Khalil Tahir Sandhu

              Lahore(PR)Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Khalil Tahir Sandhu said that government stands with the grieved family, rape victim Christian girl is not unclaimed; the accused has already been arrested from the day one. He said that justice will be given right after investigation. However, political opposition is distressing the facts due to their vested interests. He said that those who are prevailing sectarianism, spreading mischief and religious hatred should be ashamed. He said that highlighting every negative issue affects national image of Pakistan at international level.

                        Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Khalil Tahir Sandhu expressed these views during his visit to the house of raped girl in a village of district Sheikhupura, here today. He said that I hereby visited this place under the very instructions of Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif. He further said that government stands with the grieved family, we will stand still until justice is not provided to the grieved family. He said that  government will not only provide financial assistance to the grieved family but also assist in fighting the case against culprit. Provincial minister said that some anti-social elements are trying to raise the issue unnecessarily and painting it a religious reflection however, hardly there is a reality. Some political party workers have lodged protest in this regard however the accused has already been arrested from the day first and police is assisting all the way. Provincial minister said that opposition party workers are giving more damage to the family by highlighting the issue for their vested interests as the family is already under psychological pressure. The family along with the collaboration of Christian and Muslim community is appealing to close the door of the home of accused person which is located right in front of their home. Provincial minister said that according to Muslim and Christian community they confirmed that the grieved family is living with peace and tranquility from years in the village. He said that such incidents are giving harm to the humanity moreover anti-social elements try to take advantage of such incidents and spoil the environment so that Muslim and Christian community should collectively work for providing justice to the rape victim. Parliamentary secretary for minority affairs Tariq Masih Gill has assured that government will turn every stone to provide justice to the grieved family. The concerned SHO Farooqabad and members of Christian community were also present on the occasion.