LAHORE: The Zakat and Ushr Department, even after the passage of six months of the ongoing fiscal year, has failed to release funds to public hospitals, Pakistan Today has learnt. Due to this failure, poor and deserving patients are not able to get the required medicines from the specially constituted Zakat and Ushr Department in the respective hospitals, causing them much inconvenience. It is noteworthy that in each hospital, social welfare officers and their subordinate staff members continue to receive their monthly salaries regularly. There are also reports of widespread corruption done by these officers at the expense of poor patients. The spokesperson regretted the inconvenience caused to patients because of the delay, adding that they were making sincere efforts to release the funds as soon as possible.

Source: Pakistan Today December 14, 2017 18:00 UTC