PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government spokesman Ajmal Wazir on Monday rejected media reports stating that over 1,100 zaireen had gone missing from quarantine centres in the province, terming the news baseless and fabricated.
In a media briefing here, he said that initially zaireen were kept at three quarantine centres. Two in D. I. Khan and one in Peshawar, adding that all the zaireen have left for their homes while the only one coronavirus patient was left at the Darazinda Quarantine Centre who had tested positive in a re-test.
Ajmal said that the media should confirm all news related to coronavirus before its dissemination, saying that false news was incredibly dangerous during this time.
Referring to the disbursement of financial assistance among deserving and poor people, he said that a total 3,600 points have been set up in the province to give Rs12,000 to each deserving family under Ehsaas Programme of Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan.
He said that in second phase Rs6,000 would be distributed among the poor people on behalf of the provincial government while as per the directives of Chief Minister (CM) Mehmood Khan some 1,000 KP families would also get financial assistance under Zakat fund.
Ajmal said that the disbursement of money was being made in highly transparent manners and there were three modes of disbursement of funds including Bank Al-Falah, Easypaisa and NADRA where each person could get Rs12,000 after biometric verification of his/her thumb.
He said initially the government received some complaints of cheating public in the disbursement of funds and but strict action was taken against the accused persons. He said that now the process was very transparent and in case of any complaint the accused would be taken to task.
He said that on the directives of chief minister the coronavirus testing capacity was being enhanced and for the purpose 25,000 corona testing kits have been distributed among districts, adding that health officials are in contact with private labs to increase the testing capacity to 10,000 per day.
Ajmal said KP government was committed to protecting people from the havoc of coronavirus and KP CM has talked to PM on the video link and has informed him about future input.
KP government spokesman said that the prime minister was addressing grievances of all provinces without any discrimination and it was time for all to shun political differences and help the government to defeat the pandemic.
