KOHAT: The medical superintendent of Liaquat Memorial Hospital at a meeting held here expressed his concern over placing the hospital in category ‘C’ despite its recognition by the relevant authority as a teaching and specialisation facility.

Dr Hashim Bokahri demanded that it must be placed in Category ‘A’ as a principle.

He said the hospital had also been receiving patients from Kurram, Hangu, Orakzai, Darra Adamkhel and other periphery areas due to which it faced shortage of doctors, nurses, medicines and funds.

Last year, the hospital’s emergency received over 150,000 patients. The complicated maternity cases from these periphery areas and private clinics were also referred to the hospital, which had received over 54,000 female patients so far in eight months.

He said now the hospital’s emergency OPD had been opened for both male and female patients and the second shift had also been started.

He said the hospital offered specialisation in gynae while regular urology department had been launched.

Dr Bokhari regretted that reconstruction of the hospital had been halted and new tenders were yet to be floated.

PROTEST DEMONSTRATION: The traders belonging to Bajaur district here on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against the deteriorating law and order situation and targeted killings by unknown assailants in the region.

The protesters led by their president Arab Jan gathered in front of Kohat Press Club and demanded action against those who had challenged the writ of the government.

Arab Jan said on the occasion that the state had the resources and means to trace the miscreants who were behind the unrest.

He said that a few weeks ago tehsil chairman Haji Said Badshah of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl was injured in a bomb attack and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2022