PESHAWAR, Jan 25: The Ghandhara Institute of Medical Sciences (Gims), is working hard to provide community health care to the people of rural areas around Peshawar and other parts of the district.

The tribal areas have also not been neglected as Naseer Camp Hospital is already helping the people of Khyber Agency at Torkham.

Besides, the Farkhanda Institute of Nursing and Public Health is carrying door-to-door services in the surrounding villages. The nurses, lady health visitors and midwives look after the womenfolk and treat them on the spot. Examinations, service and medicine are free.

The medical party, along with specialists of the Naseer Teaching Hospital, visits the rural areas biweekly. At the hospital indoor treatment is provided free; and pre-natal and post-natal aid is given to the women while infants are examined and treated. At present, villages Spina Wari and Pishtakhara are being regularly visited where school children are given free medical aid. Emergency cases are brought to the Naseer Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, for indoor treatment.

Gims Chairman Prof Surgeon Mohammad Kabir recently announced an increase in the monthly stipend of nurses to provide them an incentive for serving the ailing humanity with greater zeal and attention.

All expenditure, such as that on the supply of free medicine, ambulance services, medical examination and on admission in the hospital, are borne by the Kabir Medical College and Begum Mohammad Naseer Trust. Gims, therefore, is extending practical assistance to the people and to the health department to carry health care services to far-flung areas.

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