- The outbreak of typhoid and dysentery has been reported from Oveer valley of Upper Chitral where hundreds of people including women and children have contracted either of the two diseases during the last couple of weeks.
- Advocate Islam Akbaruddin, the chairman of Terichmir Area Development Organisation told Dawn by telephone here on Saturday that more people were contracting the illness with each passing day and situation was dangerous in the absence of primary healthcare facilities.
- He said that although no death was caused due to the diseases yet the situation could take an ugly turn anytime as many of the patients were in precarious condition.
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