CHARSADDA: A man shot dead his wife and mother-in-law for `honour` in Shabgadar tehsil here on Sunday.

The Saro Kall police quoted a man as saying that he was in his house in Samnat village along with his married sister and mother when his brother-in-law along with his brothers entered their house and opened indiscriminate fire on the inmates.

As a result, his sister and mother were killed on the spot, the complainant said, adding the attackers escaped the area after the incident.

According to police officials, the accused suspected his wife of having illicit relationship, which led to strained relations with them. The slain woman had left the house of her husband and was living with her parents.

DIALYSIS EQUIPMENT LIES UNUSED: Unavailability of nephrologist and technicians at the district headquarter hospital, Charsadda, has been a source of embarrassment for kidney patients who continue to visit Peshawar for dialysis.

Kidney patients requiring dialysis go to teaching hospitals outside the districtdespite availability 14 dialysis machines, costing Rs4.8million at the DHQ hospital, due to unavailability of specialist doctor and technicians, sources said.

The issue has been brought into the notice of health department, but to no avail, they added.

Medical Superintendent Dr Mohammad Ali told Dawn that posts of nephrologist and technicians were lying vacant, and the government had been informed about it. `We have requested the health department to fill the positions so we could start nephrology ward.

The conditions at the children ward are not any different where three patients have to lie on single bed with shabby mattress and dirty environment around.

Jawad Ali, a local resident said while the government made tall claims to bring reforms in the health sector, thegroundrealitiesdepicted quite a dismal picture.

He said it was duty of the government to make available treatment facilities to patients as they paid taxes.

Fawad Khan of Razzar said the people risked getting infections by visiting private dialysis centres due to the inability on part of the authorities concerned to make functional the costly machines purchased from public money.