PESHAWAR, Sept 3: People of the Bara area of Khyber Agency have expressed resentment over the apathy of the authorities concerned towards Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Dogra and asked the lawmakers belonging to the agency to take up the matter.

In a written complaint on Saturday, the residents said that lack of facilities and poor security had rendered the hospital useless. They requested Senator Hamidullah Jan and Member National Assembly Khalil Rehman to visit the hospital and make arrangements to improve its condition.

“There is a total lack of administration in the hospital,” they said, adding that poor security arrangements forced the staff to remain absent from their duties, compounding the problems of the ailing lot of the area.

They alleged that the health directorate of the agency was bent upon sending home the very few specialist doctors remaining in the hospital.

They said the hospital lacked the services of a pediatrician, an orthopaedic specialist and a general surgeon, and called for appointing the necessary staff to run the hospital properly.

The residents demanded of the NWFP governor and Fata Health Directorate to constitute teams to pay regular visits to the hospital and said that medicines and basic facilities be made available at the hospital.