Staff Reporter Peshawar
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has said that sustainable development of all the southern districts of the province including Kohat is one of the highly focused areas of the incumbent provincial government adding that a number of projects are in progress to this effect and would be completed on priority basis.
“Special initiatives are being taken to ensure availability of doctors, allied medical staff and equipments in the hospitals of the South districts to provide state of the art healthcare facilities to people”, he said and added that all these efforts on completion would bring positive change and provide all time solution to the issues in health sector.
This he stated while talking to a delegation of district Kohat headed by the Chairman Kashmir Committee Sheryar Afridi who called on him at Chief Minister House Peshawar the other day and discussed with him the matters related to ongoing developmental projects and public issues of district Kohat. MPA Ziaullah Bangash was also present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister told the delegates that the government was taking concrete steps for the redressal of all the long standing issues of southern district including availability of health facilities, provision of clean drinking water and other basic amenities of life.
He said that non availability of clean drinking water was a long standing issue of southern region adding that provincial government has identified round about 350 schemes in D.I.Khan, Bannu, Tank, Lakki Marwat and other areas to resolve the issue of clean drinking water.
He said that work on various projects for extending gas facilities to different localities of Kohat was underway which on completion would address the gas related problems on permanent basis adding that the incumbent government was taking result oriented steps under a well devised strategy to resolve public issues and provide them relief to optimum level.
