JI leader gives PPE kits to doctors, medics

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Ameer Liaqat Baloch visited Lahore General Hospital and Gulab Devi Hospital on Thursday and donated a consignment of personal protective kits, gloves and masks to the doctors’ representatives.

JI’s Social Welfare Organisation Al-Khidmat Central Punjab President Ikramul Haq Subhani, AKF Lahore President Abdul Aziz Abid, JI Lahore Ameer Zikrullah Mujahid, Qadeer Shakeel and other office-bearers accompanied the JI naib ameer.

Talking to the media, Liaqat Baloch expressed sorrow that instead of acknowledging the doctors and paramedics’ valiant fight against coronavirus, the PTI government was victimising them by depriving them of the vital protective gear and abandoning them when they protest against the absence of precautionary measures.

He demanded Prime Minister Imran Khan fight against coronavirus, not against the doctors and paramedics. Jamaat-e-Islami, he said, fully backed the demands of doctors and paramedics in this crucial juncture of history. Later, Liaqat Baloch visited the hunger strike camp set up by the doctors and paramedics outside the health secretary’s office for the last eight days.

He warned the PTI government against damaging what was left of the national unity and integrity at the decisive moments of the history. He asked the prime minister to give up egotist attitude and evolve a national action programme for countering coronavirus.

Baloch lamented denying the protective gear to the doctors and paramedics by the government was tantamount to promoting coronavirus and enmity towards the health sector. He emphasised that those politicians who failed to serve the nation were bound to fail in the politics.

He said entire system of governance had badly failed under the PTI government. The nation is facing miseries and helplessness. While the government was busy in a tug of war against the state institutions, the devastations by coronavirus were increasing and the masses were its ultimate victims. He said JI had proved time and again that it could both serve the nation in times of trial and lead the country by setting clean and clear standards of political priorities. He said JI and its sister bodies had served the nation in the coronavirus irrespective of religion, race, region, caste and creed.