SIALKOT – For the last 23 years, 113 posts of doctors and paramedics have been lying vacant at District Headquarters Hospital Narowal, it is learnt.
As a result, the patients have to suffer great ordeal for treatment in Narowal. The Punjab government had upgraded the DHQ Hospital to Civil Hospital in 1991 without appointing the medical staff. Up to 1600 outdoor patients and more than 350 emergency patients daily visit Narowal DHQ Hospital.
Fifty six posts of senior medical offices and medical officers while 10 posts of nurses and 46 of paramedics have been lying vacant. The total number of other lower class employees was 310 out of which 112 seats are vacant. The political, social and religious circles of Narowal have expressed grave concern over the critical situation. They urged the government to look into the matter.
FAULT: Consumers have been suffering great ordeal due to prolonged technical fault in internet service in Sialkot areas. Industrialists, traders and exporters complained that they were unable to contact with their foreign customers as their internet connections were lying out of order for the last one month. They said that they had repeatedly lodged complaints at the local PTCL offices for the rectification, but still remain unable to get the service.
When contacted, officials of PTCL in Sialkot said that the DSL service disrupted due to some technical faults in Islamabad fiber cable. However, they were busy to remove the local faults in the service in Sialkot.
