KOHAT: The livestock department has launched a campaign to spray animals with anti-tick chemical to avoid spread of Congo virus in Orakzai district.

Dr Younis, director livestock department, said spraying of cattle would continue till Eidul Azha. He said both local and sacrificial cattle brought from Kohat and Punjab in the upper and lower tehsils of Orakzai were being sprayed.

Dr Younis said various teams constituted by him had started spraying animals in Yakh Kandao, Zera, Shahoo, Ghiljo, Dabori, Mishti Mela, Ferozekhel Mela and Kalaya areas.

CENTRE OPENS: MPA from Hangu Torab Shah on Friday inaugurated a tuberculosis centre in Doaba area for diagnosis and treatment.

Speaking on the occasion, he said he would take up the issue of vacant positions of doctors and paramedics in the major hospital of the district with the health authorities in Peshawar.

Meanwhile, Safeer Ahmed, the head of the tuberculosis ward at the Kohat Teaching Hospital, has said there are 5,500 registered patients in the district. He said majority of patients were women.

He told Dawn on Friday that three doctors, a pharmacist, a feeder, and a Class-IV employee were manning the centre.

He said the early symptoms were blood in phlegm, loss of appetite, fever and joint pain, and a person with such early warnings should immediately contact the doctor.

He said patients were given six-month medication in phases.

He said in severe multi drug-resistant cases, patients required a year of medication.

Earlier, he said MDR patients had to go to Peshawar for treatment, but now a full-fledged department had been established in Kohat.

LOW GAS PRESSURE: The residents of Biliang Town of Kohat on Friday complained about low gas pressure.

Khalid Javed, chairman of welfare organisation Gumbat, councillor Safeer Khan and others demanded of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited to increase the pressure.

They complained that women couldn’t prepare meals due to extremely low pressure.

The local SNGPL officials promised to resolve the issue.

Published in Dawn, June 15th, 2024