Quack claims lives of two minors
Third child shifted to Nishtar Hospital in critical condition
MULTAN:
Two minors died while another was shifted to a hospital in critical condition after reportedly taking medicines prescribed by a quack running a homoeopathic clinic in the Hamidpur Kanura area on Friday. Police claimed to have arrested the quack and sealed his clinic.
Police said a homoeopathic clinic established in Thatti Lal area of Multan was registered by the Punjab Healthcare Commission in 2018. However, the monitoring of the clinic was not continued. Khadim Hussain, a brick kiln labourer and resident of Hamidpur Kanura area of Muzaffarabad, took his children seven-year-old Tahira, nine-year-old Danish, fiveyear-old Muneeb for treatment of fever from a clinic.
Multan reports one more corona death, 29 new cases
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MULTAN: Another corona patient died at the Nishtar Hospital here on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Muhammad Ali Yasir of Multan. A spokesperson for the hospital said that 72 corona patients were under treatment at the hospital, including 24 positive, 16 suspects and 32 negative. As many as 718 corona tests were conducted at public and private hospitals in Multan division during the last 24 hours while 29 patients tested corona positive, the health authorities said.
Doctors stage demo: Activists of Pakistan Medical Association on Saturday staged a demonstration and observed a sit-in outside the Health Secretariat Chief Executive Office here.