PESHAWAR, June 28: Restructuring of the NWFP health department is adversely affecting the performance of the department, according to official sources.

The NWFP government, they said, had demolished the basic health development units in the directorate general health services in 2000, in the name of rightsizing, which badly hit the performance of the department.

The sources said the department was finding it extremely hard to prepare precise calculations (PC-1s) of various projects and therefore the ultimate sufferers were the poor people.

Though international donors such as GTZ, JICA and Canadian Development Organisations and others are ready to donate for the health-care projects in the NWFP, but lack of planning has been hindering the department to avail of grant-in-aid, they said.

Therefore the department is now destined to take loans from the federal government and World Bank.