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January 19, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to establish a ‘Covid-19 vaccine procurement fund’ with an initial capital of Rs1.5 billion for the procurement of vaccine for its frontline healthcare workers and the government has already started negotiating with private parties and manufacturers of the two vaccines, given emergency use authorization in Pakistan by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).
“Instead of waiting for the Covid-19 vaccine to be acquired by the federal government, we have decided to establish an emergency fund of Rs1.5 billion initially and procure vaccine for our frontline workers within a few weeks’ time. So far, we have 80,000 registered frontline workers but this can go up to 125,000 in entire Sindh who are directly dealing with the Covid-19 patients,” Sindh Health Minister Dr. Azra Pechuho told The News on Monday.
Islamabad: The Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in Islamabad have put security on high alert ahead of the opposition parties’ alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) protest rally scheduled for Tuesday, January 19, outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) building.
The PDM, an 11-party opposition alliance, had announced earlier this month that it would hold a protest outside the ECP secretariat against delay and slow pace of the foreign funding case against the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
In order to review the security situation and to ensure order in the federal capital during the planned protest by the PDM, Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has called a meeting of high level officials of police and law-enforcement agencies.
The number of the people benefitting from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s Sehat Sahulat Programme has increased threefold in Malakand (Zone I) and Hazara (Zone II) divisions since the launch of the free healthcare initiative there in last Nov and Dec, respectively. Dawn/File
PESHAWAR: The number of the people benefitting from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s Sehat Sahulat Programme has increased threefold in Malakand (Zone I) and Hazara (Zone II) divisions since the launch of the free healthcare initiative there in last Nov and Dec, respectively.
The health department extended the programme to Mardan and Peshawar division (Zone III) earlier this month.