PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to close down in a week all bogus clinics and other operations run by quacks across the province.
The orders came as the chief justice resumed hearing a number of cases related to public welfare issues, including those related to healthcare.
The chief justice is in Peshawar on a two-day visit and conducted hearings of several matters at the local registry yesterday.
As the hearing went under way, the chief justice remarked, “quacks are destroying people’s lives”.
He then inquired from the head of the healthcare commission about his salary, to which he responded that he takes home Rs0.5 million a month.
“What kind of a province is this where the chief secretary earns Rs180,000 and you get Rs0.5 million,” the chief justice wondered.
Taking up the issue of provision of clean drinking water, Chief Justice Nisar ordered the testing of water samples from across the province.
The chief justice then asked officials present in court how they will get the testing done when the government does not have the required laboratory or technical machinery for it.
