Chitral burns centre yet to get operational

CHITRAL: The Burn, Trauma and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Center, established with the financial support of the Patrip Foundation in District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) Chitral could not be made operational even after three years of construction.

The centre was inaugurated by the commandant Chitral Scouts in September 2016, after a foreign donor organization raised millions of rupees for the burn centre.

It was handed over to the DHQ in April, this year, but unfortunately, till now, the burned injured patients are not being treated at the centre and are referred to Peshawar.

Last week, eight people of a family were injured in a gas cylinder explosion in Ayun village. They were brought to Chitral hospital but no treatment was provided at the burn center due to the lack of facilities and staff and thus the injured were referred to Plastic Surgery Center Hayatabad Peshawar.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2019.