1122 service to be extended in KP far flung areas to facilitate Tourists : Atif Khan.

ISLAMABAD -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tourism Minister Atif Khan announced on Monday that the Rescue 1122 service with more ambulances would be made functional soon in various far flung areas of KP province for the facilitation of domestic and foreign tourists visiting there.

Talking to private news channel, KP government has finalized a plan to launch medical and emergency services in rural areas of the province to provide quality medical facilities to the visitors of far flung areas at their doorstep.

He shared that government was bringing proper traffic management system and providing all required equipment to hospitals in the province, adding that government was modernizing health sector to resolve the difficulties being faced by public specially the tourists.

"We have plans to recruit more trained doctors, paramedical staff and quality medicine facilities in various health units of KP to overcome lack of emergency facilities for tourists who always required these facilities in critical situations", he added.

He assured that other issues faced by tourists in emergency would also be resolved on priority and every support would be provided to it.

'Pakistan has huge potential in tourism. It is full of historical and cultural sites for local as well as international tourists,' he said.

He said the federal government in coordination with all stakeholders to boost tourism in the country by removing all hurdles and misconception about our country to foreigners' visits to the tourist destinations, particularly to Gilgit-Baltistan.

He said after a long time domestic...