Mustafa Kamal directs PIMS to provide best care to blast-injured

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal visited the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad to inquire about the victims injured in the Islamabad local court blast, ARY News reported.

The Federal Minister directed the hospital administration to provide the best medical facilities to the injured.

Syed Mustafa Kamal stated that overall, 22 wounded victims are currently under treatment at PIMS, while two injured have been shifted to a private hospital.

He further stated that following the blast and in response to the emergency, the hospital’s disaster ward has been activated.

The Minister said the families of the two critically wounded victims took their patients to a private hospital.

On the other hand, the PIMS administration stated that 36 people wounded in the suicide blast were brought to the PIMS hospital.

Eighteen injured have been discharged after receiving medical aid, while 14 wounded are out of danger, the administration stated.

The hospital administration informed that 10 victims killed in the blast have been identified, whereas two persons have not been identified yet.

Earlier today, Mustafa Kamal said that the proposed Article 140-A could not become the part of the 27th constitutional amendment owing to the lack of consensus within political parties over it.

MQM legislator was speaking on the floor of the National Assembly during debate over the constitutional amendment.

“The issued doesn’t end here, the 28th amendment would come in this house soon,” Kamal said.

He claimed that the local government system doesn’t exist in the country. “Provinces getting funds from the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award but there is no mechanism to disburse funds to lower level”.

He said under the powers delegated in the 18th Constitutional Amendment resources freeze at the level of chief ministers. “It is the reason behind the talk about rolling back the 18th Amendment”, he said.