Lack of facilities at Sukkur isolation units slammed

SUKKUR: Shia Ulema Council Sindh, vice-president Allama Asad Iqbal Zaidi, Sukkur Division president Allama Mohsin Ali Naqvi and others have protested against the lack of facilities in the isolation units of Labour Colony, Sukkur.

They claimed that the management was treating the pilgrims like animals and was not providing them proper food and other necessary facilities. Later, the protesters ended the demonstration after the DG Health and DC Sukkur had assured them to resolve their all issues within 24 hours. They said the mismanagement of the federal and provincial governments caused the outbreak of coronavirus because all pilgrims hailing from Iran and Iraq were kept at Taftan border, rather than identifying coronavirus victims and putting them in isolation after screening. They said it was federal and provincial governments’ responsibilities to put the infected persons at Taftan border detention. They said despite putting Coronavirus patients into isolation, the authorities brought them to Sukkur isolation units, where 50 percent of the patients were positive.