Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had ordered the authorities to make sure all water supply schemes and reverse osmosis (RO) plants are functional within one month.
According to a local media report, he made this directive so people in the province can receive clean drinking water after the CM was informed that 2,109 water filtration plants, including 1,620 RO plants, and 818 of them were non-functional.
He was informed that there were total 5,091 water supply and drainage schemes and 2,494 of them were non-functional and 244 of them had been abandoned.
Moreover, the authorities told the Sindh CM that all the RO plants would be installed with RO meters and sensors within a month and a fortnightly report relating to the operation and maintenance of the scheme and plants should be sent to the public health engineering department (PHED) secretary.
PHED is responsible for establishing, operating and maintaining water supply and drainage schemes.
The CM was told that out of 2,016 health facilities, 1,032 were being run by Peoples Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI), 821 by the health department and 163 on public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
Out of 109 secondary and tertiary health care facilities, 95 are being run by the health department while 14 were operating under the PPP mode.
The chief minister directed the health department to update him on a weekly basis.