The first phase of Gujranwala Institute of Nuclear Medicines (GINUM) has been completed with a cost of Rs 360 million and has started diagnosis providing services to 150 to 200 patients daily in the outdoor patients department. This was told during a briefing at the third annual symposium held at GINUM. It was told that GINUM would start emergency services to cardiac patients soon. As many as 500 women have been diagnosis in breast cancer every year and the GINUM is creating awareness and providing treatment facilities to reduce fatality ratio in this disease. The symposium was presided over by Anmol Director Dr Waqar Hyder while Dr Imtiaz Ahmad Randhawa, Dr Sohail Murad, Dr Saleem Akhter Rana and Haleema Zainub spoke on this occasion.
BYPASS ROAD TO BE COMPLETED IN ONE MONTH: Commissioner Saeed Iqbal Wahla has said that 13-kilometer-long eastern bypass road will be completed within a month at an estimated cost of Rs 650 million. He paid a surprise visit to the under-construction project and urged Frontier Works Organization to complete the work in time. He hoped that load on the interior city GT Road would be reduced after completion of the bypass road while the commuters of Sialkot district would also benefit from it while travelling to Lahore.
MNA inaugurates Tehsil Road: PML-N MNA Khurram Dastgir has said the PPP-led government has become a curse for the country and now even sincere friends of Pakistan are reluctant to cooperate with it.
He stated this while addressing a public meeting held to inaugurate newly constructed Tehsil Road. He added this regime was choosing the most corrupt persons for the federal cabinet. “Time has come to get rid of this plutocrats’ government as well as the slavery of America,” he added.
Khurram Dastgir, earlier, inaugurated the road along with PML-N City President Abdur Rauf Mughal and hoped that dilapidated roads culture in the city would soon be ended. He said the PML-N government had started unprecedented development works in the city and sooner the citizens would feel a difference between bad and good governance.
OBITUARY: Gujranwala Arts Council Acting Resident Director and District Information Officer Tahir Mahmood’s father, Mian Muhammad Aslam passed away after brief illness. The deceased was former assistant director, Punjab Livestock. He was buried at Khokharki graveyard.
His funeral prayer was attended by government officers, journalists and mourners from different walks of life.
