Punjab government has imported latest sewer safety kits from Italy to control loss of human life during desilting of sewer lines.
Punjab Local Government Special Secretary Dost Muhammad Bareech said while addressing a function of distribution of sewer safety kits among Tehsil Municipal Officers at Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company.
Bareech said that Punjab government had imported the best available system and useful machinery available in the world from Italy for the protection of sewer men which consisted of facemask, oxygen cylinders, pipe for oxygen and compressor.
He said that sewer men could carry out desilting of sewerage and restoration work for seven to eight hours in the sewer with the equipment. Secretary further directed the concerned authorities that emergency battery light used in mines should be provided to the sewer men along with sewer safety kit so that they could work in deep and dark sewer lines easily.
Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company MD Aamir Rafique said that every sewer safety kit consisted of two cylinders, sixty three feet pipe, one facemask, cylinder trolley and a compressor and the air could be filled in each cylinder up to the pressure of 300 bars. He said that one cylinder was sufficient for continuous use of three hours whereas compressors had also been provided for filling it again.
Later, the secretary gave two sewer safety kits to each Tehsil Municipal Officer of Chiniot, Chubara, Burewala, Sadiqabad, Kalar Kahar, Khanewal, Hafizabad, Jhelum, Muzaffargarh, Khanpur, Gojra, Muridke, Bahawalnagar, Pakpattan and Daska.
