SIALKOT
Twenty-two affected villages of Chaprar-Sialkot have been lying disconnected from the rest of Sialkot district for the last thirteen consecutive days.
Two bridges in Tavi near Chaprar were swept away in flash flood of River Tavi about thirteen days ago. These bridges have not yet been repaired or reconstructed due to which these villages are still lying disconnected. Though the floodwater was receding in these villages, they are inundated with four-feet stagnant water. Diseases including gastro, high fever, allergies, skin diseases have broken out in villages Salehpur, Chaprar, Patwal, Patwal Khurd, Patwal Kalan, Suhailpura, Resmaan, Bara Dari, Beli, Jhumiyaan Gujjaraan, Nadaala and Chah Beriyaan. Unfortunately, these villages have not yet been brought under the medical health cover by the Sialkot health department. However, the teams of the Sialkot Veterinary Health Department reached in these villages and are giving vaccine to the cattle to save them from fatal diseases.
Talking to newsmen by phone, the affectees lying stranded in these villages complained against poor performance of the government departments. They said, “We have been facing starvation with our cattle in these disconnected Chaprar villages where diseases are spreading while Health Department has not yet brought these inundated and disconnected villages under its medical and health network, leaving us at the mercy of these unavoidable circumstances.”
They urged Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to take serious notice of the critical situation and order the officials concerned to ensure early practical steps to reduce their miseries.  When contacted, District Health Officer Dr Javaid Warraich said that the entire situation was in the notice of Health Department. He added that it had shifted its main medical relief camp from Chaprar to Salehpur, which would cover three villages Patwal, Salehpur and Suhailpura. He said that doctors and paramedics of health department have reached these villages while travelling hard on the donkey-carts.
Meanwhile, DCO Nadeem Sarwar said that 100 survey teams have started survey of the property and cattle losses in the areas in Sialkot district. He said that the survey teams comprised the Imam of the local mosque, headmasters of government schools, concerned Patwaris and secretaries of the union council concerned. He added that the Punjab government was intending to ensure the payment of first installment of the financial compensation of their property losses. On the other hand, the district administration has removed all the 36 flood relief camps set up in flood hit areas of Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur tehsils for the help of flood affectees.


He added that the flood relief camps have been removed after the departure of the flood affectees back to their homes in the flooded areas.
Meanwhile, MNA Sahibzada Syed Iftikharul Hassan Shah has said that the government was striving to ensure early rehabilitation of the flood affectees. He was addressing the flood affectees in Daska tehsil’s villages Bogarey, Jhulky, Koreyki and Mianwali Bangla. The MNA distributed as many as 1100 ration bags among the local flood affectees there...