Our Correspondent Lower Dir
After 12 years of medical and humanitarian services, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has closed its Lower Dir project, and handed over all its activities in Timergara District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital to the Department of Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The international medical association announced gradually handing over the responsibility of the various departments in November 2019. MSF handed over the emergency room that it managed for over a decade in March 2020 followed by the the newborn unit in August 2020.
he handover process was fully completed at the end of January 2021 after MSF handed over the maternal and child health unit and support services, such as, laundry, blood bank, sterilization, waste management and energy zone.
MSF first started its emergency activities in Lower Dir district back in 2008 to address the medical and humanitarian needs of the internally displaced people (IDPs) who then found refuge in small camps or with host families.
MSF supported local health structures, including the Timergara hospital, to help them cope with the new and increasing needs, and provided medical and hygiene services as well as relief items such as tents and blankets to displaced families.
