ANKARA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday renewed their pledge to upgrade the excellent bilateral ties between the two brotherly countries to new.
Minister reviews corona situation, facilities
Lahore
May 26, 2021
LAHORE:Provincial Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid has sought a report from the primary and secondary healthcare department as to why less number of vaccines was administered on Monday. She directed the department to provide details about the jabs in each district that day.
The minister was presiding over a meeting to review the corona pandemic situation, pace of vaccination and medical facilities in hospitals, at the Civil Secretariat on Tuesday. Speaking at the meeting, Dr Yasmin Rashid said that availability of accurate data was imperative to control the corona epidemic. She directed that online data entry be ensured at all the newly-established vaccination centres. She said that round-the-clock work was being done in three shifts at the Expo vaccination centre and the number of staff would be increased in the shift facing a rush of people, she added. The chief secretary said that the process of vaccination ha
Sewage station stopped at Christian school in Pakistan
Students at New Convent School can breathe easily again after environment agency s ruling
Students of New Convent School protest about the adjacent sewage disposal station. (Photo supplied)
A new ruling from a Punjab environment watchdog has barred a new sewage disposal station from operating adjacent to a Christian school.
In a notice issued on Feb. 19, Environment Protection Agency (EPA) director general Khurram Shahzad canceled the conditional approval issued to the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) of Faisalabad for construction of the disposal station near New Convent School in Madina Town, home to about 14,000 Christians.