The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has provided facilities of mobile hospitals for the basic health facilities in the needed remote areas of the merged districts. Ten vehicles were provided to the health department officials in the merged districts for use as mobile hospitals in areas where basic health facilities are not available.
As a result of this facility, minor operations, laboratory examinations, X-rays, dental treatment and maternity needs can be fulfilled. The said vehicles were donated by the German Development Bank KFW under the Mobile Hospital Centralized Programme for Tribal Areas in 2013 but were lying dysfunctional due to required repairs. Similarly, seventeen more vehicles will be repaired and provided to these districts for health facilities.
In this regard, a ceremony was held at Civil Secretariat Peshawar on Tuesday wherein the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Newly Merged Districts Affairs, Industries Commerce and Technical Education Dr. Aamer Abdullah, Advisor to Caretaker Chief Minister on Health Dr. Riaz Anwar, Secretary Health Mahmood Aslam Wazir, Special Secretary Health Habibullah, Senior Planning Officer of the Department, District Health Officers of the merged districts and other relevant officials participated.
In the ceremony, the caretaker minister, Advisor to CM advisor and Secretary Health handed over the keys of the said vehicles to the DHOs of merged districts.
