TIMERGARA: Lower Dir deputy commissioner Suhail Khan has said that reconstruction of damaged schools in Maidan area would be started soon as the government is committed to providing all facilities to the students of militancy-hit areas.

Mr Khan visited the government high school, Bandai Maidan, government degree college, Kumbar, and tehsil headquarter hospital Lal Qila the other day. Other administration officers and elders of the area were also present on the occasion.

The visiting team met with staff of GHS Bandai Maidan. The school was blown up by militants in 2009 and its building still awaited reconstruction.

The deputy commissioner announced that building of the school would be reconstructed on priority basis. He expressed his anger at the use of substandard material in the under-construction building of government degree college, Kumbar, and said the director general monitoring would be informed about the matter.

DC says students of militancy-hit areas to get all facilities

During his visit to the Lal Qila hospital he found that no doctor was present on duty in the hospital emergency. He directed the authorities of the Merlin, an NGO working in health sector in Lower Dir, to hire three doctors for the hospital.

PEACE RESTORED: Commandant Dir Scouts Col Nasar Umar Hayat has said that security forces have arrested almost all criminals along with their masterminds involved in terrorist activities in Lower Dir since 2009. He said that such criminals also included the terrorist who had killed former district naib nazim Zahir Shah Khan.

He said this while talking to a 25-member delegation of Dir Union of Journalists (DUJ) that called on him at Dir Scouts Fort here the other day. Mohammad Jalil, president of DUJ, led the delegation.

Col Hayat said that the security forces had arranged 23 free medical camps during last 15 months at far-flung areas of Lower Dir whereas most of the government schools destroyed or damaged during militancy in Maidan had been reconstructed.

DOCTOR’S ‘NEGLIGENCE’: A female doctor at a private hospital in Timergara allegedly left a piece of cloth inside the body of a woman during a caesarian operation.

Maheetullah, a resident of Danwa village, told media persons at Timergara Press Club that he took his wife to the City Hospital for delivery where a lady doctor allegedly left a piece of cloth inside her body during the operation.

“When we took the patient to home she developed intense pain and a piece of cloth was recovered from her body after she underwent another operation at DHQ hospital,” Maheetullah said, adding that her condition was still critical. He appealed to the health minister and secretary to take action against the doctor for her negligence.

Published in Dawn, March 17th, 2015

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