KOHAT: The relatives of a young man from Lachi, who died at the KDA Teaching Hospital, held a protest on Saturday, blocking the entrance to its emergency.

A protester, Akhunzada Yaar, said they had brought the deceased in stable condition for minor sickness, but the staff handed them his body.

He said it was the second case in two days as on Friday a young man had also died due to alleged administration of wrong injection by staff at the Liaquat Memorial Hospital.

The protesters regretted that both the hospitals lacked equipment and other facilities, and serious patients were often referred to Peshawar hospitals.

They demanded provision of oxygen plant, MRI and CT Scan facilities at the KDA hospital.

REFUSAL CASES ADDRESSED: The officials of the district administration on Saturday visited Nasratkhel area and convinced the parents, who had refused vaccination of children, to immunise the minors against the deadly polio.

The vaccinators had brought the refusal cases into the notice of additional assistant commissioner-II Mohammad Vaqas.

The district administration officer accompanied by local elders visited the families and removed their apprehensions about the anti-polio drops.

U-TURNS CLOSURE: Representatives of civil society organisations and elders of densely-populated Junglekhel and KDA Township on Saturday met district development advisory committee chairman MPA Ziaullah Bangash and apprised him about the problems the people were facing due to closure of U-turns on the roads at the city springs and the Liaquat Memorial Hospital.

They informed the lawmaker a short-cut way through the MP Gate in the cantonment had already been closed for traffic, thus increasing people’s misery.

The residents said motorcyclists and pedestrians crossed the U-turns by removing barriers, putting their lives in danger amid traffic rush.

They said the people had to travel five kilometers to reach Junglekhel and KDA Town due to closure of U-turns.

They demanded that the U-turns should be opened and a traffic warden should be deployed there for guidance of motorists.

Mr Bangash assured them of conveying their concerns to the authorities concerned.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2021