QUETTA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a project to establish labour rooms and repair health facilities damaged during last year’s floods in Balochistan.

Under the project, part of WHO’s plan to improve health facilities in the province, 26 labour rooms will be built while 100 damaged health facilities will be repaired.

The new labour rooms will provide quality maternity facilities to mothers and children in the province’s hospitals, said Parliamentary Secretary Dr Rubaba Khan Buledi after a meeting with WHO Balochistan head Dr Asfandyar Yar Sherani on Tuesday.

She lauded WHO’s role in improving the health care system and appreciated its cooperation in the provision of medical services to needy patients of Balochistan.

Dr Sherani, while briefing the parliamentary secretary, said that a dental unit has also been established at Usta Mohammad while warehouses have been set up in the offices of district health officers in Nasirabad and Jaffarabad districts.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2023