KARACHI, Dec 29: Sindh Chief Secretary Dr Mutawakkil Kazi has directed the Sindh Health department to take steps for promotion of mother and child care activities.

He was presiding over a high-level meeting at his office, which reviewed matters relating to the USAID programme for ‘Maternal & Child Health Activities,’ on Monday.

The CS urged officers concerned to implement the programme in a way that the public complaints could be addressed.

He stressed the need of improving the standard of government-run hospitals.

He said that healthcare schemes should be initiated in only those district which really needed such projects,

He directed the Sindh Health Secretary, Ashique Hussain Memon, to get details from relevant districts and departments and devise a strategy to improve the condition of public hospitals.

Earlier, Mr Memon told the meeting that under the programme, the taluka hospitals, Khairpur Nathan Shah, and that of Rohri, had been selected as pilot projects, and steps were under way at tehsil and district level for repair of hospital buildings, provision of furniture, laboratory equipment, office supplies, safety measures and transport.—PPI