BB concerned over lack of civic facilities in country

Islamabad—The Pakistan Peoples Party is deeply concerned at the neglect of the basic civic facilities in the country that is leading to the spread of gastroenteritis and hepatitis, the two diseases tied to clean drinking water, a good sewerage system and good health facilities.
In a statement on Tuesday She said that the PPP was committed to safeguarding the civic rights of the working, farming, youth, traders and middle classes of the country.
Unfortunately the neglect of the drinking system and sewerage facilities had led to the deterioration of the pipes and the mingling of waste with drinking water resulting in devastating consequences. Moreover the hospitals, in particular the rural hospitals were ill equipped to deal with these illnesses due to cost of medicines and lack of facilities.
The PPP Chairperson said that just this week in a single day two persons died and over 60 infected by gastroenteritis virus in village Syed Abdul Ghani of district Jacobabad. She said that the true strength of a Nation were its people adding that there was little point in spending billions on weaponry when the very people who the weaponry was to defend weredying at the hands of another war, the war waged by disease against the poor and the weak.
The former Prime Minister urged the people of the country to vote for Pakistan Peoples Party in the forthcoming general elections.
She asked officials to refuse to rig elections and answer the call of their conscience to save the lives of the poor and the oppressed as well as the working and middle classes by voting for the pro people forces.—Online