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Balochistan trying to meet high oxygen demand
Government dismisses concerns over shortage of cylinders across province
QUETTA:
With Covid-19 cases soaring in Balochistan, the demand for oxygen has also increased significantly. However, oxygen supplies at government hospitals in the provincial capital Quetta are either inactive or insufficient because the government has not fulfilled prior financial commitments to private companies for these oxygen cylinders.
Most of the cases of coronavirus are being reported from just seven districts across the province, including the most populated Quetta, due to which the need for oxygen has also increased.
Oxygen supplies for Covid-19 patients at the Fatima Jinnah Hospital are inactive. However, the provincial authorities have issued a tender for a new oxygen plant for the facility. The oxygen plant at BMC Hospital is operating at minimum capacity despite the health emergency while the plants at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital and Civil Hospital,
Da’ish claims responsibility for killing 11 coal miners in Machh
Assailants abducted miners and took them to nearby hills in remote area of Bolan district
The labourers were kidnaped from a coal mine in Mach and taken to the nearby hills where they were shot at. PHOTO: FILE
QUETTA:
Eleven coal miners were killed after unidentified men kidnapped and later slaughtered them at the Mach coalfield of Bolan district, around 80km away from Quetta in Balochistan on Sunday.
Four other miners were seriously injured.
According to officials, the miners shared a residential room near the coal mine where they worked.