De-worming drive for children from 14th.

PESHAWAR -- The health department has announced that a special campaign will be conducted from November 14 to 18 across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to provide medicines to school-age children for de-worming.

This was announced by Dr Attaullah Khan, the focal person of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa de-warming programme, while addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club.

Dr Attaullah said that stomach worms caused physical and mental problems that affected the children's education. He said that as such the provincial government had decided to conduct a de-warming campaign for the...

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