F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet which met here Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Pervez Khattak approved the inclusion of Shaheed Benazir Children Hospital as part of the Medical Teaching Institution Mardan Medical Complex. The children hospital has been constructed within the premises of Mardan Medical Complex.
The teaching hospital will become functional this year. Sixty percent of construction work has already been completed and from now onward the construction of children hospital would also be taken care of by the Board of Governors Mardan Medical Complex.
Provincial Ministers, Chief Secretary, Addl: Chief Secretary and Administrative Secretaries attend the meeting. The cabinet also approved the regularization of 62 contract employees of Transport Department and Mass Transit. The employees of the bodies included 6 motor-vehicle examiners and contract employees of 54 vehicle emission testing stations.
The cabinet also Okayed the amendment in the schedule-II of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rules of Business 1985. The cabinet also approved the relocation of chips crushers plants to a reasonable and safe places at a distance from the population within a period of 6 months. The district government, meanwhile would settle down the selection of sites and the acquisition of land for the purpose.
The chief minister directed to conduct a survey of all the illegal stone power crushers and give a time frame for their relocation at a reasonable distance from the population and bring it to the provincial cabinet for a decision in its next setting.
The chief minister directed for the accelerated registration of unregistered crushing machines adding the system should not delay the developmental process in different parts of the province. The efforts should be seen as minimizing the negative impact on environment.
Pervez Khattak also directed to carry out a survey to ascertain the factors contributing the growing trend of environmental degradation in Peshawar adding that the relevant quarters should plan how to minimize the hazardous affect of population and environmental degradation in Peshawar. It should be seen from the Public Health lenses. The chief minister directed to frame laws to safeguard the provincial capital from the negative environmental effect.
The chief minister directed the Minister and officials of health department to visit four hospitals in Peshawar that included Maulvi Jee Hospital, Nasiraullah Babar Hospital, Sifat Ghaur Hospital and Police Hospital. The health department should propose the kind of facilities required for making these hospitals totally functional.
The government, he added would provide resources for repairment, other reconstruction and renovation work along with provision of equipment etc. he assured that his government would provide facilities to the people in the much needed health sector.
