KOHAT: The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) and health teams have been making efforts to cover polio refusal cases since the launch of anti-polio campaign four days ago.

When contacted, EPI head Dr Mohabat said that they had covered 246 refusal cases with the assistance of the union council and Unicef committees on Thursday.

He said they would again embark on the mission on Friday (today) to convince parents of the remaining around 824 children to allow their vaccination and save them from permanent disability.

Dr Mohabat said there were also over 400 chronic refusal cases pending from the last drive conducted in June.

Meanwhile, additional assistant commissioner-1, Kohat, Nisar Mohammad Khalil visited Bahadarkot area along with the chairman of the union council polio eradication committee where the vaccination team covered some refusal cases.

WEAPONS SEIZED: The police seized 20 pistols at Kohat Friendship Tunnel checkpost on Thursday which were being smuggled from Darra Adamkhel to Bannu.

The officials stopped a suspicious car and during search recovered 20 pistols of various bores from its secret cavities.

The police said the suspect Junaidur Rehman, a resident of Bannu, admitted to his crime and was shifted to the police station where an FIR had been registered against him.

In another case, SHO Ustarzai recovered four double barrel shotguns from a flying coach and held its driver, Daud Khan, a resident of Parachinar, here the other day. The police said the driver admitted that he was carrying the weapons to Peshawar. They have registered a case against him.

TREE PLANTATION: The Kohat Cement Company (KCC) will plant 50,000 saplings to overcome pollution created by dust released due to blasting in the mountains under its campaign in 2022.

The head of its corporate social responsibility fund, Kifayatullah, said this while launching the monsoon plantation campaign with the cooperation of KCC Education Trust on Thursday.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2022