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12/10/2017

The Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has expressed dissatisfaction over the referral system in vogue in the public sector hospitals........

The Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has expressed dissatisfaction over the referral system in vogue in the public sector hospitals and directed to remove the weaknesses in the referral system. He was presiding over a meeting on the upgradation of different healthcare centres, improved healthcare facilities, optimum utilization of healthcare units and removal of grievances of the poor patients at local healthcare centre, at Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar. Secretary Health Abid Majeed and other quarter concerned attended the meeting. The Chief Minister said that the existing referral system, was blind, obsolete and seemed to be shifting the burden to other hospitals despite the reality that the upgraded system of healthcare had the capacity to locally provide efficient healthcare to the poor patient. The system needed to be improved, its weaknesses removed and rendered absolutely efficiently, he added. Pervez Khattak directed for a combined institutional monitoring mechanism for both the education and health sector simply replicating the elementary education system. He directed for the presence of doctors on duty and those who are absent should be punished by cutting their salaries down. He also agreed to the upgradation of BHU to RHC Jalozai but the RHC should be constructed at the available space for which PC-1 was ready and feasibility should be prepared. He also issued directives for the RHC Spin Dak and construction of Aza Khel Bala hospital on the already identified available land. He also directed for the shifting of employees to the Takht Bhai hospital and further directed to discourage the detailment culture. The government he assured would provide resources. However he advised that the district government should put their share of health sector resources in the process of upgrading the district healthcare system. The model already existed as the district of Nowshera was providing resources for the health sector upgradation and efficient healthcare in its different health centres within the district. <><><><><><>