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| October 04, 2006 | Wednesday | Ramazan 10, 1427 |
Development funds to be released
PESHAWAR, Oct 3: The NWFP Assembly’s standing committee on the local government department has decided to release the amount sanctioned for community infrastructure projects so that construction work on the development schemes may begin.
In a meeting presided over by MPA Mian Nadir Shah on Monday, the committee asked the authorities concerned to attend the next meeting with progress reports.
MPA Pir Mohammad Khan asked for submission of details of Rs2.284 billion spent under the plan on various schemes in the province. The committee asked the official concerned to present details in this regard in the next meeting.
LRH REPORT: A total of 48,369 patients have been treated as out-patients in the Lady Reading Hospital while 48,570 people were admitted to the hospital’s emergency unit during the past month.
This was stated by a spokesman for the hospital while briefing abou the hospital’s performance.
He said that 482 patients were treated with Rs700,000 out of zakat funds in September.
The spokesman said that special lectures on positive change in attitudes of doctors, paramedical and nursing staff had been arranged by the hospital administration.
He said that installation of modern machinery and diagnostic units in the hospital would go a long way to provide better health-care facilities to people.
The hospital would start publication of its monthly magazine next month, he said.—APP
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