CHARSADDA: Caretaker Federal Minister for Health Dr Nadeem Jan inaugurated a mother and child health centre in Tangi tehsil here on Friday.

On this occasion, adviser to the caretaker chief minister on health Dr Riaz Anwar, representative of World Health Organisation Dr Palitha Mahipala, federal and provincial health officials and local elders were present at the inaugural ceremony.

Speaking on the occasion, the federal health minister said the centre was built in a short period of one month at a cost of Rs65 million with the support of WHO.

He said WHO had also promised to provide an angiography machine to the centre soon, while the provincial government would provide X-Ray machine.

The federal minister said an ambulance would also be provided to the centre.

Dr Jan said people of Tangi tehsil would be provided with all medical facilities in the centre. He said the government was solarising 400 hospitals across the country and making 500 hospitals fully functional by providing facilities under the National Health Support Programme.

CM’s adviser Riaz Anwar and WHO representative Dr Mahipala also spoke.

Meanwhile, the bomb disposal unit personnel defused a three kilogrammes explosive device kept in a pressure cooker and placed near a warehouse in Khwajawas Korona area of Shabqadar tehsil, thus averting a terror bid.

The warehouse owner got registered a case against unknown persons in the Counter-Terrorism Department’s police station, Mardan.

Separately, unknown assailants killed a man and threw his body in a nearby cemetery in limits of the city police station, Charsadda.

The body was brought to Charsadda Hospital for autopsy.

The deceased was identified a Gul Wali, a resident of Chitral Korona, Sardarabad. He was currently living in Utmanzai area of Sadiqabad.

Jan Ali, a brother of the deceased, told the police that they had no enmity with anyone. He, however, said wife of his brother had gone to her parents’ house after developing differences with her husband.

The police registered a case against unknown persons and started investigations.

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2023