In March 2020, the Zainab Alert, Recovery and Response Bill was passed in the National Assembly.
The September 2020 gang rape of a woman stranded on Sialkot-Lahore motorway shook Pakistan from its apathetic stance on sexual violence against women. The woman who was beaten and raped in front of her children became the tragic rallying sign for the imperativeness of steps for prevention of rape and certainty of punishment.
In December 2020, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government’s landmark bill for protection of rights of victims and survivors of sexual violence, sexual abuse and rape and the certainty of punishment titled the Anti-Rape (Investigation & Trial) Ordinance, 2020 was approved by President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi. Also approved was an amendment in the Pakistan Penal Code, titled Criminal law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.
2,480 get vaccinated against corona in DI Khan
National
April 4, 2021
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: As many as 2,480 people including 471 healthcare staff got vaccinated against the Covid-19 at four centres set up across the district on the direction of Khyber Pakht-unkhwa Health Department, official sources said on Saturday.
During the vaccination drive that started amid surge in the corona cases across the province, 2480 people including elderly people and officials of the health department have been vaccinated so far.
During the second phase of the corona vaccination drive, registration for persons aged 50 and above had also been started from April 1. The district health department had set up four centres for vaccine registration at Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Paharpur, Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Parova , Police Lines Hospital Dera and Mufti Mehmood Teaching Hospital, Dera.
KP govt firm to vaccinating all healthcare providers despite some refusals
Peshawar
March 7, 2021
PESHAWAR: Amid reports of refusals by some of the health workers, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has made it clear it is committed to vaccinating each and every frontline healthcare provider in the province.
The federal government had on February 3, 2021 sent 2,800 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department for the vaccination of the frontline healthcare providers in the first phase.
The vaccination process was quite slow in the first few days but then Secretary Health Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah came out in support of the health directorate and personally supervised the immunisation process by visiting different healthcare facilities.
Peshawar
February 24, 2021
MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department initiated the anti-coronavirus vaccination drive for the frontline workers here on Tuesday.
“We are going to administer the Covid-19 vaccine to around 600 frontline workers of the health department,” Dr Qasim Ali Khan, the deputy commissioner, told reporters after the inaugural ceremony of the anti-Covid-19 vaccination at the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital here.
Medical Superintendent of King Abdullah Teaching Hospital Dr Shahzad Ali Khan and PTI officer-bearers Kamal Saleem Swati and Malik Mushtaq Khattana were also in attendance.
Dr Qasim said that around 500 medical staff of the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital and around 100 medical staff of Oghi health facilities would be administered anti-Covid-19 vaccine during the first phase of the drive launched in the district.
Vaccination of healthcare providers continues in KP
National
February 6, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department continued vaccination of the doctors and other healthcare providers on Friday against the fast-spreading the novel coronavirus in the province.
The Health Department had kicked off the vaccination drive in the province on Wednesday. Chief Minister Mahmood Khan had formally launched the immunisation campaign in Islamabad where he had called the doctors and other healthcare providers of Hyderabad Medical Complex (HMC), Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH).
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has received 16,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the federal government. China has gifted 0.5 million doses of the vaccine to Pakistan. The government has decided to vaccinate the healthcare providers and particularly the frontline health workers first as they directly dealt with Covid-19 patients in the hospitals.