KOHAT: Provincial minister for local government Inayatullah Khan has inaugurated a maternal and child healthcare hospital constructed by Al-Kidmat Foundation (AKF) with a cost of Rs60 million in Bilitang Town here.

He also announced establishment of Agosh Centre with a cost of Rs120 million which would have capacity to take care of 200 orphans. The hospital has been named as Naseem Khan Maternal Centre.

The function was attended by the foundation’s central secretary general, Mushtaq Mangat, provincial vice-president Khalid Waqas, Kohat Cement Company (KCC) chief executive Aizaz Mansoor Sheikh and local elders.

AKF says over 300,000 people to benefit from the facility

Mr Sheikh announced Rs300,000 funding a month for the hospital. He said that KCC had already donated Rs6 million for its construction and if needed they would provide more funds for its extension.

The foundation officials said that over 300,000 people of 45 villages would benefit directly from the hospital.

The hospital director, Dr Musarrat, said that it had the facilities of dialysis centre, digital X-ray, an ambulance, eye operation, a labour room and outpatient department.

The minister said that Pakistan was famous for charity works where about two million children were studying in seminaries free of cost. He said that if charity programmes were channallised poverty and unemployment could be ended in the country. The land for the hospital has been given by Ghulam Ali of Bilitang.

PUBLIC COMPLAINTS: Taking action on public complaints at an open kutcheri, deputy commissioner Khalid Ilyas ordered removal of impediments to the establishment of offices of newly-created tehsil municipal administration in Gumbat. He also ordered the MOL Oil and Gas Company to hire local people instead of employing outsiders.

He expressed anguish over the bad sanitation situation, absence of traffic police, high transport fares and encroachments and asked the tehsil municipal officer, Kohat, to submit a report in this regard within a week.

ARRESTED: The police on Friday arrested a man for his alleged involvement in smuggling of stolen motorcycles to Afghanistan. Police told mediapersons that they stopped a suspicious van coming from Peshawar at the Friendship Tunnel’s checkpost and found in it two motorcycles, which had no registration numbers. They said that during preliminary interrogation the suspect revealed that he belonged to Akakhel, Khyber Agency, and was part of a gang that smuggled motorcycles to Afghanistan via tribal areas. A case has been registered against him.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2017