PESHAWAR: In response to bomb blast in Kurram Agency today, Director Health Services FATA Dr Jawad Habib Karam Khan has issued orders to declare emergency at hospital in Kurram Agency.
Leaves of all the relevant agency health staff have been cancelled and they have been ordered to report for duty. Additional human resource, medicine and ambulances from nearby health facilities have been shifted to Kurram Agency to ensure supplies of services to the affectees.
Purpose built emergency kits, obtained from ICRC, have also been sent to Parachinar. Teams have been constituted to visit and look after the needs of injured referred to Peshawar hospitals. So far 22 persons died in the blast and 87 wounded: 41 have been admitted in KurramAgency and 24 injured have been referred to hospitals in Peshawar. Director Health Services FATA Dr. Jawad Habib Khan also went to meet injuredat CMH hospital Peshawar.He also met Commandant of CMH Hospital.
