Friday, August 03, 2012

PML-N shouldn’t politicise SKMCH: Elahi

By Tariq Farid

LAHORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should not make a welfare institution like Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMCH) a target of “political victimisation”.

Elahi said that targeting a hospital for political vengeance was highly deplorable and “the greatest moral degradation on the part of the PML-N”.

He said playing politics against the most modern hospital rendering great services to cancer patients was highly condemnable and worst example of resorting to lowly tactics and a grave violation of moral and social values.

The PML-Q leader said that Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital was a non-political welfare institution rendering healthcare services to the people, providing free treatment to the deserving and that millions of cancer patients were provided most modern treatment and highest standard of facilities at the hospital.

He said the PML-N’s campaign of allegations against Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital might not harm Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan but would certainly cause irreparable loss to cancer patients from across the country, in particular the poor who deserved free treatment.

He asked the PML-N leadership to discard such “low and negative tactics”. He said the mishandling of the hospitals and patients in Punjab, deteriorated situation of the government hospitals.

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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