BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) has established a two-bed isolation ward for the suspected patients of monkeypoxinpursuance ofthe government instructions.

This was told by BVH Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Aamir Bokhari on Tuesday.

He added that a seminar for public awareness was also organised at the Quaid-i-Azam Medical College (QAMC) where Principal Prof Dr Sofia Farrukh and a number of professors and doctors delivered lectures on the subject.

The MS said the QAMC and BVH medics were informed by the speakers that the disease was caused by an infection with monkeypox virus. As a preventive measure, they added, contacts with materials that had been in contact with a sick animal should be avoided.

The symptoms of theinfection included rash or sores appearing on skin while it may also cause fever, headache and exhaustion.

KILLED: Two persons were killed while three others suffered serious injuries in two separate incidents at Chak 6/BC here and Hasilpur city.

In a road accident, motorcyclist Ghulam Shabbir (18) died while his pillion Zainul Abidin (24) suffered injuries when they were hit by a rickshaw on the Vehari Road. After the hit by the three-wheeler, Shabbir fell down on the road while a speeding trailer crushed him to death.

In the secondincident, a man allegedly opened fire on his in-laws over a family dispute in the same village. One Mahmood Ahmed, a brother-in-law of the suspect, was allegedly killed while two others, Younus and Mehboob, suffered serious injuries.

Baghdadul Jadid police registered a case against the suspect.