Govt asked to ban entry of lawmakers to quarantines

MANSEHRA: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has demanded the government to ban entry of lawmakers into quarantine centres where positive Covid-19 patients were being kept.

“The government has been violating World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 standard operation procedure as a local MNA entered into a quarantine centre and held a photo session there with a positive patients making his loved ones and constituency people more vulnerable to this rapidly spreading virus,” PML-N MNA Muhammad Sajjad Awan told reporters here on Wednesday.

He said that Saleh Muhammad Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA, was still using Covid-19 emergency for his political stunts in breach of WHO’s SOPs.

The PML-N leader said that the PTI MNA entered into a quarantine centre established at King Abdullah Teaching Hospital and held a photo session with a Covid-19 patient. “If National Disaster Management authority has sincerely been working to eliminate Covid-19 or curtain its further spread, it should immediate put on place a ban on entry of politicians and lawmakers at Quarantine centres,” he added.

Sajjad Awan, who is elder brother of ex-MNA Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar Awan, the son-in-law of former premier Nawaz Sharif, said that his party was sincerely working to contain spread of Covid-19 across country and distributed protective gears to health facilities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“Our party’s central senior vice-president Sardar Muhammad Yousuf also visited the same health facility and given away protective kits to administration but didn’t enter into quarantine centre following the WHO’s SOPs,” he added.