Mirpurkhas:On behalf of Aiwan e Sahafat Mirpurkhas patrons Muhammad Hashim Shar, President Fazal Shar, Senior Vice President Mukhtar Krio, Vice President Abdul Ghar Rind, General Secretary Azhar Chaddar, Trasurer Nisar Sheikh Mani, Information Secretary Raza Rind, Joint Secretary Raja Sindhi members, MMC Falk Sher, Hasan Malik Senior Journalists Ubedullah Kori, Raja Rashid, Nadir Khan Yousafzai, Zaman Qaim Khani Ghafar Shar, Owais Malik and others paid rich tribute to Mother of the Nation Ms. Fatima Jinnah on her 56th death anniversary.
They said that she played a very important role in the establishment of Pakistan alongside the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and played the role of a great brother’s great sister and public leader in the true sense of the word.
Fatima Jinnah proved by her sincerity that women are in no way less than men and with their hard work, dedication and passion they can make their mark in every field.
They added that the Nation pays tribute to the services of the Mother of the Nation for the establishment of Pakistan and subsequently for the strengthening of democracy in the country and will always remain indebted to her.
They further said that the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Ms. Fatima Jinnah, the poet of the East, Allama Iqbal’s Pakistan will become the most powerful country in the world in the near future and Pakistan’s army, civil leadership and all institutions will join it.
It will make the country economically strong. ZCZC
Unnecessary use of antibiotics adversely affecting public health: Dr Jamal Nasir
LAHORE:Caretaker Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare and Population Welfare Dr. Jamal Nasir has said that the unnecessary use of antibiotics has adversely affected public health and reduced the effectiveness of antibiotic drugs.
He was signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vice Chancellor Federal Health Services Academy Dr. Shehzad Ali on Sunday to prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that under this plan, some districts would be selected in the province and apart from creating awareness to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in their rural health centers, legal measures would also be taken under which medical stores, selling antibiotics without a valid doctor’s prescription would face legal action.
Dr. Jamal Nasir said that apart from the government doctors, the doctors at the private clinics would also be informed about which diseases and in which case antibiotics could be given.
The provincial minister thanked the Federal Health Services Academy and all the supporting institutions, and said ” We have to pay attention to our future generations, we have to protect our children from the wrong and unnecessary use of antibiotics so that they can become active and healthy citizens of the country,” he added.
The Vice Chancellor Federal Health Services Academy appreciated the services of Dr. Jamal Nasir in the field of public health and said that the caretaker government was working with great attention in the fields of public health. He said that with hard work and patriotism, challenges facing the country could be tackled and the most important of them was to run the public health sector in the right direction.
It is pertinent to mention here that under the MoU, joint efforts will be made to minimize unnecessary use of antibiotics in collaboration with a Danish organization, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions, World Health Organization and Association for Social Development Pakistan.