PESHAWAR, March 6: The people of Chitral have demanded of the NWFP  government to provide diagnostic facilities and specialist  doctors for the cardiac patients in the remote district of the province.

The district, which remains cut off from the country during most of the year, faces acute health related problems.

Former member of the NWFP assembly, Zainul Aabidin, drawing the attention of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government to the plight of the inhabitants of the area, said here on Tuesday, in a press  statement, that due to the lack of health facilities in the district, the heart patients had to go to other cities for checkup. He said that there was no heart specialist in the district headquarter hospital, and the district was also facing shortage of doctors.—Bureau