Taking steps to improve health delivery in merged districts: CM

F.P. Report

PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has initially created one thousand new vacancies ranging from BS-03 up to BS-18 for various Health Service delivery outlets in the Newly Merged Districts (NMDs). Recruitment process against the newly created vacancies has been started and the same would be completed by July this year.

In addition, more than eleven hundred additional vacancies will also be created in next phase, and overall more than twenty three hundred new vacancies would be created for strengthening the health sector in the NMDs.

It was revealed in a meeting held here on Thursday to review progress on various initiatives of the provincial government taken to improve health service delivery system in the NMDs with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair.

The meeting was given detailed presentation about the progress so far made on the strengthening of various public sector hospitals, provision of necessary equipments and medicines to those hospitals, creation of new vacancies for the hospitals, recruitments against the already created vacancies and various other initiatives launched under the Accelerated Implementation Plan (AIP).

Regarding the approved schemes for strengthening healthcare system in the NMDs it was informed that the schemes included upgradation of DHQ hospital Khaar Bajawar from category B to A, upgradation of DHQ Hospital Parachinaar Kurrum from category C to B, establishment of category D Hospital at Sub-division Darra, establishment of Thalassemia Center at DHQ Hospital at Miraanshah, establishment of Hospital and Medical College in South Waziristan, establishment of category B hospital in Orakzai, revamping of 09 Nos of Rural Health Centers, strengthening of Extended Program of Immunization (EPI), provision of Standard Medical Equipments and Medicines to all the secondary level hospitals, provision of express power supply line to all the district headquarter hospitals, appointment of specialist doctors in hospitals across the NMDs.

The Chief Minister directed the high ups of health department to expedite recruitment process against the already created vacancies as well as creation of new vacancies and added that timeline be given for the timely completion of all the recruitment process.

He also directed the concerned quarters to expedite work on the upgradation of hospitals and provision of Standard Medical Equipments to the hospitals in the merged area and remarked that any sort of unnecessary delay in the implementation of these schemes would not be tolerated.