PESHAWAR, Sept 14: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan has directed the authorities concerned to speed up work on the ongoing developmental schemes in Upper Dir district to ensure their timely completion.

The schemes there are designed to provide improved health-care facilities to the local patients.

He said this while presiding over a meeting convened to review the pace of work on developmental schemes in various districts. District Nazim Upper Dir Sahibzada Tariqullah, DCO and officials of the departments concerned attended the meeting.— Correspondent

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