Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing & Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the Sindh government has been repeatedly saying that if this pandemic spread beyond control then our health system is not capable of handling so many patients and we do not have enough ventilators to save people’s lives He said that the provincial government wanted to maintain strict lockdown in the month of May as per opinion of the medical experts, according to a news release on Thursday. He said that according to the medical experts, the month of May was very dangerous with regard to the spread of coronavirus. Nasir Shah said that the Sindh government do care about the sentiments and businesses of the people but the facts did not allow them to let all the businesses open at once. The minister said that the first thing that was important to save the lives of the people. “If we don’t focus on saving people’s lives and taking care of their health, then our health system will collapse, as unfortunately it is not strong enough to tackle a pandemic like the Coronavirus,” he added. Nasir Shah while citing the example of Balochistan, said that this was the reason that forced the Baluchistan government to extend the lock down in the province until May 19. Praising the Balochistan government, the provincial Information Minister also said that if such a decision had been taken by the Sindh government, the federal spokespersons would had been lashing out at the Sindh government constantly. He said that because this decision was taken by the government in Baluchistan, no one criticized it, while the Sindh government had been constantly portrayed as an enemy of the people or as villain. Nasir Shah while lamenting this double standard said that the Sindh government had always been criticized without any reason. The minister said that if the Sindh government was stressing for a severe lockdown in the month of May, it was because of saving lives and taking care of health of the people, adding that, there was personal gain involved in it. He clarified that the decision of lock down till May 9 was taken by the federal government and which was announced by the federal minister and not by any minister of the Sindh government.
