KOHAT: The Kohat’s dispute resolution council (DRC) settled over 8,000 cases as regards land, money, family disputes and driving licences and other documents’ certifications during 2020.

A statement issued here on Wednesday said the DRC also paid millions of rupees to the victims, including women, as their share in property.

Similarly, the police excess services and police assistance lines received 3,200 complaints regarding missing people, including children, and 3,060 regarding driving licences and other documents’ certifications. The DPO office received 1,101 complaints of various nature, which were sent to the departments concerned for action.

LOW QUALITY MEDICINES: Amid complaints of selling low quality medicines with huge profit margins, the office-bearers of All Pakistan Druggists and Chemists Association, Kohat chapter, has asked the distributors to avoid supply of medicines with short expiry period.

In a unanimously passed resolution at a meeting, the body asked for provision of the stock daily instead of weekly to over come shortage of lifesaving drugs.

The association’s district chairman Masood ur Rehman presided over the meeting.

The participants lamented that they were supplied medicines with expiry dates of a few months, and when they wanted to return the stock the distributors refused to take it back. They demanded that the batch number of supplied stock and the sent items should tally with each other.

On the other hand, the paramedics association alleged that the druggists changed the prescription of doctors and sold low quality medicines to patients earning huge profits.

The association’s president Rashid Bokhari said the druggists were playing with the health of people. He said selling medicines without prescription was banned.

Published in Dawn, January 7th, 2021