QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani chaired a meeting here on Friday to review the matters relating to establishing the emergency rescue service 1122 under the administration of the Public Primary Health Initiative (PPHI).

An amount of Rs3.5 billion will be spent on the project and 25 emergency centres will be established at eight national highways of Balochistan where trained medical staff will be deployed.

The meeting was attended by provincial ministers Mir Naseebullah Marri and Mir Zahoor Buledi and the secretaries of health, law and finance departments. PPHI Chief Executive Aziz Jamali briefed the meeting on the pace of progress on the project.

He told the meeting that the first batch of staff was being trained in an emergency centre in Punjab and the process of establishing emergency centres in containers equipped with the required facilities was under way. Initially 50 ambulances and 25 fire tenders will be purchased for the emergency service which will be made functional by the end of this year.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2019