CM KPK directs to establish State of the Art Hospitals in the province.

PESHAWAR -- Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has directed the concerned authorities to start home work including identification of suitable land for the establishment of State of the Art Hospitals at regional level in Malakand, Hazara and South regions, adding that the sites of these hospital should be easily accessible to all the districts of the regions.

According to details, he has further directed the high ups of health department and PESCO to take necessary measures to provide power express lines to the remaining District Headquarters Hospitals of the province on priority basis so that uninterrupted supply of power to these hospitals is ensured for round the clock health service delivery to patients.

He was chairing a meeting regarding the development portfolio and public issues of Malakand region here the other day.

Besides provincial cabinet members and Members Provincial Assembly from Malakand Region, the meeting was attended by high ups of provincial departments and federal entities.

The meeting reviewed in detail progress, on the ongoing developmental schemes in the regions. Whereas, the elected public representatives flagged issues faced the general public in their respective constituencies and the Chief Minister issued directives to the concerned authorities to resolve those issues on priority basis further directing them to show significant progress on ground to resolve those issues in next meeting to be held a month later.

Most of the issues identified by the MPAs related to health, education, clean drinking water, irrigation, electricity and road infrastructure.

On the occasion, the elected representatives pointed out deficiencies of engineers and other technical staff of works departments in their constituencies, as well as the chair directed and the concerned authorities to convene a special meeting of all the high ups of all works departments, Revenue Department and Public Service Commission for a way forward to hire these technical staff of works departments in a speedy pace.

The CM KPK also directed the high ups of health department take necessary measures for upgradation of the hospitals in the region where there is utmost requirement of it and ensure provision of all the required medical equipments to these...

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