PESHAWAR, Sept 13: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan on Wednesday ordered preparation of a plan for providing funds and human resources to the Saidu Group of Hospitals, Swat, to enable the hospitals to extend better services to people.

He was presiding over a meeting which discussed problems faced by the hospitals.

Health secretary Abdus Samad Khan, Swat DCO Shahab Khan, health EDO Dr Faridoon, and Saidu Medical College principal Dr Javaid Zaman attended the meeting.

The meeting identified steps to improve the functioning of the hospitals.

The minister told the meeting that the Saidu Group of Hospitals was the only institution providing health services to the people of the Malakand division.

He said the Swat hospital had been given the status of a teaching hospital, but it lacked funds and technical staff.

The minister ordered authorities concerned to chalk out a plan to remove deficiencies in the hospitals.