MANSEHRA: Special assistant to the prime minister Sardar Shahjehan Yusuf on Monday said the federal government had approved the first women’s university for Mansehra district along with a long-delayed water scheme.

Mr Yusuf told reporters after addressing a lawyers’ gathering on the district bar’s premises here that an appropriate building had been selected for the women’s university, which would begin classes in the next academic session.

He said the prime minister would soon inaugurate the multibillion rupees ‘gravity flow water supply scheme’ for which the Saudi and Pakistani governments had already finalised modalities. The premier’s aide said the last PM Imran Khan-led government had abandoned the mega project.

He said the visa protector office’s for Hazara division would be inaugurated in Abbottabad shortly.

VACANCIES: The Darband residents have demanded of the government to fill vacancies in the tehsil’s only rural health centre.

“Many seats of doctors, pharmacists and medical technicians have long been lying vacant in the RHC, so patients are referred to health centres in other parts of the district,” trader Rozimad Shah told reporters in Darband on Monday.

He said dengue and malaria patients visited the centre in large numbers but returned without treatment due to staff shortage. Mr Shah demanded the immediate provision of medicines and other required goods to the RHC. He warned that the residents would take to the streets of the demands weren’t met.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2022