PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister, Shaukat Ali
Yousafzai, has said that the present provincial government in accordance
with its agenda is taking initiatives to provide best healthcare
facilities to the poor of the province.
Besides others fruitful
initiatives, the Insulin Bank is being established in Hayatabad Medical
Complex, Peshawar, which will soon be inaugurated formally. He said Rs
25 million has been allocated for this project out of which Rs 12.5
million has been released to the Health Department and the remaining Rs
12.5 million has been transferred to Hayatabad Medical Complex. He said
the focal persons have also been identified in eight hospitals.
This
he said while talking to the doctors and other concerned officials at
Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar. Deputy Director EPI Dr Janbaz Afridi,
Chief Executive LRH and other concerned authorities were also present on
this occasion.
The health minister on the occasion urged doctors and
other staff to play their vital role in bringing about a visible change
as the provincial government was fully committed in this regard and has
taken these historical steps which were the long-standing demand of the
province. He said, moreover, a graceful structure had been formulated
for the doctors, which would certainly be helpful to redress the
problems of doctors.
He said poor people of the province were
depending on public run hospitals as due to low income they could not
afford expenditures of private hospitals. He said the government was
trying to provide them free treatment in regard fatal and costly
diseases. He said establishment of Insulin Bank was a historical
achievement of the present government, where free treatment of diabetes
would be available for poor patients. The purchase of Insulin had
already been done while the registration had also been started from
February 1, 2014, he concluded.nds.
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