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| June 2, 2005 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 24, 1426 |
Emergency in Kohat hospitals
KOHAT, June 1: The provincial health department declared emergency in the two hospitals of Kohat on Wednesday after a breakout of gastroenteritis in the city. The hospital sources said that 41 patients had been admitted to the KDA Medical Complex and 11 children to the Women and Children Hospital over the last 24 hours. However, no casualty has so far been reported.
Dr Atta-ur-Rehman, in charge of the KDA emergency ward, said that some 150 patients with stomach pain, dysentery and vomiting had been brought to the hospital of whom 41 were admitted.
The director-general health, NWFP, sent a special team to the local hospitals on Wednesday. Medical supplies in large quantity were also brought from Peshawar and handed over to the hospital administrations.
Elders made announcements on loudspeakers in bazaar, advising people to drink boiled water and avoid eating uncovered food. The areas most affected have been the main bazaar, Garhi Jaat, Mian Khel, Mohallah Mian Badshah, Jangle Khel, Bahadar Kot and Bazaar Mustafa, Only five per cent of the patients admitted to the hospitals belong to rural areas.
Doctors attribute this to the fact that rural population uses well water, which is clean, while the urban dwellers are supplied water from tanks through pipes which often gets mixed with sewerage lines.
Dr Ajab Ali, deputy medical superintendent of the women and children hospital, said they had treated 31 children of whom 11 had been admitted.
The precautionary measures taken by the city people on Tuesday had helped control further spread of the disease.
The executive district officer, health, Omar Khan Khattak, said that he would pay a visit to the city areas on Thursday to find out the source of the disease and then recommend measures to the district administration to control it.
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