{"id":14710,"date":"2017-08-20T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T10:21:57","slug":"kp-govt-puts-lives-in-danger-by-refusing-medical-help-from-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14710","title":{"rendered":"KP govt puts lives in danger by refusing medical help from Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PESHAWAR , Aug 20 (TNS)<\/strong> In an inhuman politically motivated action, the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) government has refused to take any medical assistance from Punjab as more than\u00a0 900 people have been affected by Dengue which broke out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab government health officials, who gained expertise to control the Dengue fever were sent to Peshawar to help in the treatment of affected people but were not allowed to work in government run hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Advisor to PM,\u00a0 Amir Muqam slammed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman saying people are dying due to the epidemic while Imran Khan and his ministers are on a trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKP CM Pervez Khattak and Health Minister Shahram Khan Tarakai don\u2019t have any time to visit hospitals,\u201d he said while announcing that the federal government will give Rs 2 lac each to kin of each victim who died.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the refusal from KP government, the team of guest physicians from Punjab has established medical camp in Tahkal. The infected people include children and young people. Public announcements from mosques were made to draw out people from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of infected persons reached the medical camp to receive treatment. Punjab Primary and Secondary Health (PPSH) Minister Khawaja Imran Nazir and Amir Muqam are also present in the camp which was put in former MPA Atif-ur-Rehman\u2019s Hujra.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports more than 300 people were checked at the Punjab camp and more than 80 people were tested positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR , Aug 20 (TNS) In an inhuman politically motivated action, the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) government has refused to take any medical assistance from Punjab as more than\u00a0 900 people have been affected by Dengue which broke out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The Punjab government health officials, who gained expertise to control the Dengue fever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[589,112,201,111,220,110,115,108],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-national","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-news","tag-peshawer","tag-times-international-news-agency","tag-times-international-news-service","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14731,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/14731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}