CHARSADDA: Muhammadzai Union of Journalists has demanded termination of medical superintendent of the District Headquarters Hospital, Charsadda, for misbehaving with two senior journalists and keeping them in illegal confinement.

The demand was made at a meeting of the union’s office-bearers here on Monday.

Union’s president Faiz Muhammad, general secretary Zahid Khan, and others were in attendance.

The participants said two senior journalists, Alaf Khan Sherpao and Rafaqatullah, were kept in illegal confinement by the gunmen of Dr Jehan Zeb, who is MS of both DHQ Hospital and Mother and Child Care Hospital.

They said the journalists had gone to the hospital to cover problems facing the patients. They alleged that the MS ordered his gunmen to stop journalists from performing their duty at hospital gate and later kept them in illegal confinement.

The journalists alleged that no action was taken against the MS despite registration of FIR against him. They demanded of the health department to terminate the MS and start departmental inquiry against him.

Published in Dawn,May 10th, 2022