PESHAWAR, Oct 22: Hospitals in Peshawar have been instructed to provide free treatment to all patients who are from quake-hit areas of the province.
NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan issued this directive on Saturday during visits to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC), Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) and the Paraplegic Centre in Hayatabad.
The minister reviewed these institutions’ arrangements for the treatment of earthquake victims and inquired about the specific problems faced by patients and their attendants.
Some 1,300 medical teams equipped with the latest gadgets are ministering to the needs of people in the earthquake-hit areas, the minister said.
“Some 48 field operating theatres have been established in the affected areas and complicated surgeries are being performed there,” he said. He said that arrangements had been made for treatment of 400 quake affectees in teaching hospitals of the provincial metropolis.
“More than 200 affectees at LRH, 80 at HMC and up to 60 at KTH are being provided medical relief,” he disclosed.
Plans have been made to meet any sort of emergency in the teaching hospitals of Peshawar, he said, addding that rehabilitation centres had also been established for the displaced affectees in the city.
CHIEF SECRETARY: NWFP Chief Secretary Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi has directed the authorities concerned to collect authentic data about the damaged government infrastructure in the quake-affected zones of the province and prioritise the reconstruction and rehabilitation of all such infrastructure.
During a high-level meeting on the rehabilitation of damaged government infrastructure, the chief secretary told the works and services department to open all essential and major roads in the affected areas at the earliest so that the flow of goods to quake-hit zones was smooth.
He said that donor agencies had approached local officials to provide financial assistance to the government in the post-quake rehabilitation efforts in the affected areas.
SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT: To protect parentless females and children, the provincial social welfare department in collaboration with DCOs of Peshawar, Abbottabad and Mansehra districts has set up safe homes in government buildings where quake survivors are provided proper bedding, edibles, etc.
The health department will ensure that at least four paramedics are available at these centres for post-hospital care at each centre. The IGP shall ensure proper security at these premises.
At Peshawar, two centres one at Hayatabad (Tel: No. 091-581-0880/581-2571) and another at PITE, Charsadda Road, (Tel No. 091-2248540/Mob: 0304-903-0457) have been established. Similarly DO, (Community Dev: /Social Welfare), Abbottabad has established such centres in Welfare Home, Habibullah Colony in Abbottabad, for 25 children aged between 6 and 12; Adara Tadreesul Quran near Police Line Abbottabad for 40 children aged between 6 and 15 years; and Darul Aman, Habibullah Colony, Abbottabad for 30 women along with children under 5 years of age.
Mansehra and Haripur districts have also been asked to establish similar centres.
PESHAWAR, Oct 22: Hospitals in Peshawar have been instructed to provide free treatment to all patients who are from quake-hit areas of the province.
