MANSEHRA, Dec 7: Around 40 Ladies Health Visitors of the NWFP are still waiting for the cancellation of their transfer orders, sources told Dawn.

These LHVs, including Farah Khalid, Sohaila Bibi, Gul Naz Bibi, Shamshad Bibi and Riffat Bibi, who belong to Hazara division, told this scribe that transfer order of about 40 LHVs had been issued by the director-general some times back. They said they were asked to join their new place of duty by a certain date.

However, the NWFP Governor, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, realized the problems to be faced by these LHVs in the wake of their transfer and issued a notification (No.13543-50) on Oct 12, asking the DG health to cancel their transfer.

However, the cancellation order has not been issued so far.

The family members of these LHVs said that these health visitors had been transferred to remote places in Kohistan and Battagram, where no basic facility like education for their children was available.

They said that around 50 posts of the LHVs were lying vacant in district Mansehra alone, adding that instead of filling these posts in Mansehra, six LHVs had been transferred to Kohistan and six others to Battagram districts from Mansehra.

They requested the governor to take prompt action in this regard because their families are suffering mental agony due to delay in the issuance of cancellation orders.