Category: District

Dera ismail khan: The district's emergency service rescue 1122 on Wednesday issued an annual performance report, featuring a total of 8914 emergencies tackled by the rescue service last year.

During these emergencies, the rescue emergency service provided first medical aid to about 8905 patients under the leadership of the District Emergency Officer Eng.Fasihullah.

Sharing an yearly performance report, the spokesman of the rescue emergency service said that the rescue emergency teams promptly tackled all these emergencies and the emergency response time was recorded at seven minutes and 15 seconds.

During this period the rescue service responded to different kinds of emergencies which include 6643 medical, 1701 road traffic accidents, 199 fire eruption, 174 bullet injury or fight, five building collapse, four cylinder blast, 31 drownings and 157 different recovery incidents.

In 2024, the spokesman said a total of 766231 calls were received by the emergency service, but only 8914 were emergency calls.

During this period, the rescue 1122 handled a total of 908 referral-related emergencies, in which 829 patients shifted within the district while in 79 emergency cases, 954 patients were taken to hospitals in other districts in 2024.

He said the rescue 1122 teams were fully equipped with all necessary equipment and they had been efficiently rendering their services during emergencies.

He said that rescue teams also arranged several training sessions on first aid or tackling other emergencies for employees of different departments.

Abbottabad: Ayub Medical College (AMC) Abbottabad on Wednesday has announced the schedule for the Computer-Based Test (CBT) to recruit candidates for various positions. The test, advertised in November 2024, is scheduled to take place on January 4 and 5, 2025.

According to the AMC notification, the candidates who applied for the advertised positions are advised to visit the official website of the Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) for detailed information, including test timings, venues, and important instructions.

The college administration has urged all applicants to carefully review the guidelines provided on the ETEA website and ensure their timely attendance on the day of the examination.

Peshawar: Provincial Minister for Higher Education, Meena Khan Afridi has directed to expedite work on E-Transfer System and said it would ensure transparency in posting and transfers.

Chairing a performance review meeting of Higher Education Department, he said that transfers would be made after completion of E-Transfer System that was meant to ensure transparency and merit in the whole process.

The meeting was also attended by Secretary Higher Education, Kamran Afridi, Special Secretary and concerned officials.

Minister also directed to identify colleges that lack basic amenities and said that efforts would be made to address shortcomings in these institutions.

He also directed concerned committee to speed up work on curriculum reviewing.

Expressing satisfaction over performance of higher education department he said that irregularity and corruption would not be tolerated.

He urged teachers to further improve performance and work with dedication realizing their responsibilities.

Rawalpindi: During the year 2024, a total of 1,768 fire incidents occurred in which 98 people were victimized.

According to the year ender statistics released by the District Emergency Service, Rescue 1122 here on Wednesday, out of the total 98 victims, 11 were died, 36 were seriously injured and 51 were slightly injured.

Rescue firefighters took timely actions in a professional manner and controlled these fire incidents. Rescue service saved a total of about Rs. 1,718.0 million worth of potential damage in these fire incidents.

The major causes of fire incidents included short circuit, carelessness in using cigarettes, gas leakage and gas cylinder explosions.

Rescue Rawalpindi also reported 100 forest fire incidents in the year 2024, the majority of which were controlled by the rescue's timely response.

Lodhran: An accused,booked in several cases, was reportedly killed by firing of own accomplice during encounter near 'basti Line Wahin' late last night.

Police said here on Wednesday that three accused opened fire on the police van.The team retaliated and during the cross fire,accused Shehbaz shot dead by the firing of his own accomplice.

The team recovered rifle and number of bullets from the crime spot.

Police said that the deceased accused was booked in nine cases relating to multiple crimes as well as he had escaped the district hospital on December 11, 2024 after snatching rifle from constable on duty.

Further investigation was underway.