TIMERGARA: Residents and attendants of patients on Wednesday demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to provide free medicines to the district headquarters hospital, Timergara.

Talking to journalists here, they complained the hospital lacked medicines at its emergency. They said the previous PTI government had provided free medicines to patients in emergency ward of the hospitals across the province, but the present government had cut its emergency funds to hospitals.

They said the patients at the causality wards were being forced to buy medicines from market that caused miseries to pregnant women, newborns and other critical patients.

The residents complained the DHQ hospital had been short of emergency medicines for last several months. They demanded of the government to immediately provide funds or medicines to all the DHQ hospitals in the province.

The hospital’s former MS Dr Anwar Zada told this scribe on contact that the present government was no more providing funds for medicines at hospitals’ emergencies. He said the DHQ hospital Timergara had been managing the issue on its own, but was now unable to provide free medicines to patients owing to shortage of funds.

Meanwhile, the newly-posted medical superintendent Dr Mohammad Ali assumed the charge of his duties at the DHQ hospital on Wednesday.

MAN INJURED: A man identified as Habib ur Rehman was injured when unknown persons opened fire on him in Gumbati area late on Tuesday night. The injured was referred to a hospital in Peshawar due to his critical condition. Motive behind the crime could not be ascertained.

The Maidan police registered a case against unknown persons on the report of the injured man and started investigations.

Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2019