KOHAT: Diarrhoea has broken out in the Kohat district as hundreds of children and elderly have been admitted to Liaquat Memorial Hospital (LMH), now renamed as Women and Children Hospital.

The patients mostly came with stomach pain and loose motions. Tertiary hospitals and basic health units in the far-flung areas are also coping with the situation.

Hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Hashim Bokhari told Dawn that all essential drips and injections had been provided in bulk to deal with the emergency. He said the hospital’s emergency was receiving over 400 patients daily.

He said the disease had been caused by a water-borne virus, the ailment deteriorated due to delay in treatment and consumption of hard food. He said a double-shift emergency had been started in the hospital because it coped with people from across the city and its outskirts. The number of doctors had also been increased, he added.

PRESSURE HORNS BANNED: Deputy commissioner Furqan Ashraf on Monday banned toy pressure horns sold for Independence Day celebrations on the complaint of people.

He also banned sale of toy guns, firecrackers, toy bombs, wheelie, display of weapons, and bathing in streams and ponds.

He directed confiscation of all horns being sold in shops and by vendors and arrest of those using them.

Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2022