PESHAWAR: Another doctor has succumbed to coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday evening.

The Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) said that former district health officer Buner and former MS Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital in Swat Dr Ameer Sultan has died of COVID-19.

The PDA said the doctor had been battling against the viral infection for the last one week at ICU ward of Saidu Teaching Hospital, Swat. His funeral prayer was offered last night at Shigai, Saidu Shareef.

The doctors and other health workers who contracted coronavirus and died of it while performing their duties have not been give funds from Shuhda Package yet, said the PDA.