KHYBER
\nReducing of timing of electricity supply from twenty hours to four hours round the clock has suffered competency of Headquarter Hospital, Landi Kotal and the ailing segments of the tribal society are compelled to get treatment from the health centers in Peshawar, Jirga members said.
\nConvened and headed by Tehsil Chairman Haji Shah Khalid, a representative Jirga was held in the Chairman office that was attended by tehsil head of Jamat-e-Islami(JI) Murad Hussein Afridi,Awami National Party(ANP)Landi Kotal chapter General Secretary Jabbar Afridi,Jamiat Ullema-e-Islam,Fazalrehman(JUI-F)tehsil Ameer Maulana Aqib,social activist Banares Khan,Akhtar Ali,Aftab Shinwari,Khayal Madar and number of councilors and political workers.
\nSpeaking on the occasion Tehsil Chairman Haji Shah Khalid and others said that the DHQ Hospital was on the verge of bankruptcy as it had to pay two hundred million rupees arrears in form of electricity consuming bill.
\nDue to suspension of electricity, Operation Theatre, X-rays, Ultrasound and other equipment were no longer functional and in emergency, the doctors examined patients in torch light, they regretted.
\nThe jirga flayed TESCO for what they said was an inhuman act of suspension of power supply to the health center that multiplied miseries of the residents.
\nThey added that a special financial package for power consumer bill payment had been regularly reserved in the monthly budget for the health center but had not been paid for unknown reasons.
\nThey expressed their regret over the misusing of the hospital resources and said the health officials besides outsiders resided in the banglows and quarters of the hospital harshly utilized electricity without paying a penny in form of electricity bill.
\nA particular committee was also constituted to formulate future strategy to resolve issues in the hospital.
\nIn a press release to the media persons, the participants demanded of the Secretary Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP) Director General Health KP and other highup to take notice of the issue and adopt all necessary steps to resume uninterrupted power supply to the hospital.
\nIt is to be stated here that TESCO has reduced electricity supply timing to four in twenty hours to DHQ, Hospital Landi Kotal because of two hundred million rupees of arrears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KHYBER Reducing of timing of electricity supply from twenty hours to four hours round the clock has suffered competency of Headquarter Hospital, Landi Kotal and the ailing segments of the tribal society are compelled to get treatment from the health centers in Peshawar, Jirga members said. Convened and headed by Tehsil Chairman Haji Shah Khalid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n