KOHAT: The residents of Jarwanda and Bangashabad areas here have resented the inordinate delay in reconstruction of a road.

In a statement issued on Sunday, elders Hafiz Shahid, Hafiz Ibrar, Kamil and others said gravel was spread on the road after its outer layer was uprooted two years ago following the work was inaugurated by MPA Ziaullah Bangash. But the works and communication department had stopped the work afterwards due to non-availability of funds.

The elders said the dusty road was causing throat and breathing problems among the residents, and demanded immediate resumption of work on it.

MEETING: Kohat division commissioner Mehmood Aslam Wazir has assured the young doctors association of taking up their problems with the director general health.

The association’s president Dr Ubaid Afridi, in a statement issued on Sunday said the commissioner had assured that CT scan and angiography facilities would be provided soon to the KDA hospital.

He said presently there was no angiography service available in Kohat not even in private hospitals, and the patients had to travel to Peshawar and Islamabad for availing the facility.

HOSPITAL UPGRADATION: Medical superintendent of Liaquat Memorial Hospital (LMH) Dr Syed Hashim has claimed secretary health Amir Sultan Tareen has promised upgradation of the hospital to Category-A.

He told Dawn on Sunday he had met the secretary and informed him that in Bannu, Peshawar, and DI Khan, the district headquarters and teaching hospitals were functioning separately, but not in Kohat.

He said according to rules, a teaching hospital must function separately, whereas LMH had no proper status. He said KDA hospital had been placed both in teaching and district headquarters categories.

He said during the meeting with the secretary he had informed him that the LMH provided house jobs and specialisations, and had also been bearing the heavy burden of Afghan refugees since its establishment in 1952. He said the secretary health had promised upgrading the hospital.

CNG STATIONS CLOSED: CNG stations were closed in the district on Sunday till January 31 to provide relief to domestic consumers in peak winter.

Deputy commissioner Furqan Ashraf took the step under section 144 of CrPC.

Published in Dawn, january 2th, 2023