Peshawar
January 8, 2021
PESHAWAR: The ball is now in the court of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Peshawar High Court (PHC) whether to let the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) remain hostage in clutches of qabza mafias or become in realty a state-of-the-art hospital.
For the first time in recent history of the hospital, its administration headed by Prof Roohul Muqeem and Prof Mahmood Aurangzeb challenged the hold of certain mafias to retrieve the hospital’s precious land. The value of the property secured four days ago is stated to be several million rupees.
Prof Roohul Muqeem is the hospital director while Prof Mahmood Aurangzeb is dean of the Khyber Medical College (KMC). Both are well-known surgeons.
Public inns on hospitals’ premises being misused for years
Peshawar
January 7, 2021
PESHAWAR: Despite the fact that the so-called “Sarkaari Serai” or public inn has never been utilised by deserving people, the provincial government, particularly the Social Welfare Department, is yet to take note of this huge building being misused by certain quarters.
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government had built public inns on the premises of Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) and Lady Reading Hospital (LRH). The aim was to facilitate attendants of patients of remote areas and providing them free stay in these buildings.
Even when the MMA government was in power, some influential people, including residents of Bannu, the hometown of then chief minister Akram Durrani, had occupied rooms there and would allegedly rent it out to the needy people.
Coronavirus kills 11 more people in KP
Peshawar
January 3, 2021
PESHAWAR: Coronavirus took 11 more lives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and infected 232 other people, including Medical Director of the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) Prof Amer Azhar and three other staff members of the Cardio-Thoracic Department of the Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar.
With 11 fatalities, the toll from the viral infection rose to 1672 in KP, 41 of them doctors.
Peshawar alone lost eight people on Saturday that brought the toll from the viral disease in the provincial capital city to 819. One each person died of coronavirus in Mardan, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan.
Also, KP recorded 232 more positive cases. They included Prof Amer Azhar, a senior nephrologist and Medical Director of the KTH. He was, however, stated to be in a stable condition but had isolated himself.
Victimisation seen behind senior doctor’s repatriation to Health Dept
Peshawar
January 2, 2021
PESHAWAR: Prof Dr Nurul Iman, former dean of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) on Friday gave his joining at the provincial Health Department.
He had submitted his departure on Thursday to give arrival at the department.
According to officials of the hospital, it was sad day for all of them to say goodbye to Prof Nurul Iman who spent his life in serving the institution, patients and training hundreds of doctors.
The Board of Governors (BoG) of the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) had issued his repatriation from the hospital to the Health Department.
The committee held monthly meeting at the deputy commissioner’s office in Alpuri area here on Thursday.
Committee chairman and deputy commissioner Hamidur Rehman chaired the meeting, which was attended by the Shangla DPO, DEO (male), DHO, executive engineer, DDMA secretary Wajid Ali Khan.
In the meeting, 115 cases of compensation for various incidents in the district were presented for approval.
The committee approved seven cases of deaths and 62 of houses damages and sent rest of the cases to the relevant department for fresh verification.
DDMA secretary Wajid Ali told Dawn that compensation was sought for seven deaths in Shahpur, Manago and Bisham areas and one in Khyber Teaching Hospital due to oxygen shortage. He said the other compensation cases were about house damages and wall collapse incidents.