CHITRAL: The health department started vaccination of its staffers in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday.
A vaccination campaign in Chitral was inaugurated at a function held at the district headquarters hospital.
Lower Chitral deputy commissioner Hassan Abid inaugurated the campaign. District health officer Dr Haider Mulk and hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Shamim were the first to be inoculated against Covid-19.
Dr Shamim told
Dawn that 387 employees of the hospital had been registered for vaccination. He, however, said some nurses had reservations against the vaccine, but hoped that they would be pursued to get the jabs.
DHO Dr Mulk said the department had so far received 400 doses of the vaccine.
The patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Shangla district are living in constant fear of losing life due to high vulnerability to novel coronavirus. Reuters/File
SHANGLA: The patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Shangla district are living in constant fear of losing life due to high vulnerability to novel coronavirus.
Many of them insist that their lungs have stopped working.
Gul Afsar, who worked in a coalmine of Hangu district for 22 years, told
Dawn that his brother had died after fighting COPD for four years, while he was infected with the black lung disease, which was also called the coalminers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP).