OKARA: The University of Okara’s Faculty of Life Sciences in collaboration with the district health department arranged a coronavirus awareness seminar that was attended by students and faculty members.

The faculty chairman, Dr Muhammad Wajid, talked about the precautions, suggestions and treatment of the disease. He said the federal administrative body wanted every university to sensitise its students to this critical issue so that any possibility of the spread of the disease could be controlled.

Medical students and health experts were working to find a vaccine and cure for coronavirus. The health department’s team, including Dr Jamal Tahir, entomologist Muhammad Iqbal Mehmood and district communicable control officer Chaudhry Asghar Ali, highlighted the various symptoms of the virus and the possible harms it could inflict. They explained methods to avoid contracting the virus.

The students were told to sensitise their families and others to the issue.

The seminar had been organised on the directions of Higher Education Commission (HEC).

MISSING FAMILY: The Saddar police registered a case of a missing woman and her five children on Monday.

The first information report (FIR) lodged by the woman’s husband, Mukhtar Ahmad of village 34/2RA, stated that on Jan 30 he returned home from work and found his wife, Safia Bibi, and children Abdul Hannan and nine-month-old Muzammil Hussain missing.

The neighbours told him that Safia had gone to the DHQ hospital to get some medicine for the children.

He then went to the village school but found that his sons Abdul Mannan, 6, Husnain, 9, and Zainul Abidin, 12, had been taken away by Safia whose mobile phone was switched off since then.

After searching for a week, police registered a case under Section 363 of the PPC against unidentified abductors on the report of Ahmad.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2020