PDMA issues monsoon safety alert
Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has issued monsoon alerts for safety of the general public. PDMA has warned residents of low-lying areas to keep important and valuable items at a secure and higher place at their homes.
The precautionary measures also include advice to people of ensuring cleaning of roofs and drainage of water along with coating or cement plaster on mud build walls. Ensuring timely relocation from damaged houses and buildings in case of rain has been advised.
People are also urged to adopt precautionary measures and ensure timely vaccination for protection from disease especially cholera and skin diseases. An instruction has also been issued to Local Council Board to conduct survey of all the billboards to point out those which can fall due to wind storms.
The Local Council Board is also directed to ensure timely repair and replacement of such billboards having weak structure and which can fall due to heavy rain and wind storm.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2020.