Rapid health assessment for 13 flood-hit districts in KP completed
World Health Organization (WHO) representative for Pakistan Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala on Thursday paid a day-long visit to flood-affected areas of district Swat and reviewed health facilities for the affected people. Accompanied by District Health Officer Swat Dr Muhammad Saleem Khan, he handed over medicines to DHO Swat for the flood victims and visited the health centers in Matta and Madain areas.
During the visit, he administered the polio vaccine to the children and also met the patients and children in the hospitals.
The delegation was given a detailed briefing on the flood disaster in Swat and the response and needs of the health department during the flood emergency. Speaking on the occasion, the WHO representative said that WHO had completed the rapid health assessment for 13 flood-hit districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and was providing full support including supply of medicines, equipment and professional human resource services to KP Department of Health.
At the end of the visit, he also inaugurated the Emergency Operation Center located at DHO Office Swat.
On the other hand deputy Commissioner Battagram Muhammad Irfanullah Mehsud Thursday said that many complaints were received from the public regarding electricity load-shedding and tripping, for which load management was required on an emergency basis.
He expressed these views while chairing a meeting. Tehsil Chairman Butgram Attaullah Khan Tarand, XEN and SDO Pesco, and other officials participated in the meeting.
The executive engineer (XEN) Pesco told the meeting that all the feeders were overloaded as each transformer had arrears up to millions of rupees, and people in the village did not install metres and used electricity illegally.
It was decided in the meeting that people who used metres and paid their utility bills had the right to get electricity as per schedule without tripping. Those who did not have meters should be provided with meters as soon as possible, he added.
