CHITRAL: Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, Pakistan (AKAH-P) organised a session with the academia here the other day in connection with this year’s International Shake-Out Day on Oct 17 to sensitise people at large on how to act during the earthquakes to avoid physical harms.
Teachers from University of Chitral, local colleges and schools for boys and girls and officers of education department attended the session.
Such awareness sessions were also earlier held for different stakeholders in the region.
Manager emergency department of AKAH-P, Chitral Javed Ahmed and training officer Essa Khan briefed the participants about significance of the drill, which is simultaneously held throughout the world at 11am on Oct 17, and said that all this was aimed at inculcating in the world community the sense that they could mitigate the loss to lives during earthquakes.
They said that ‘drop, cover and hold-on’ were three techniques proved scientifically, which one should adopt during an earthquake instantly and avoid creating panic.
They said that Chitral region was situated on the fault line seismically, which called for special steps and preparedness to alleviate the damage.
They said that AKSH-P was striving to make the communities resilient to all natural disasters, including earthquakes, to decrease the magnitude of loss to the lives, properties and infrastructure.
Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2024
