RAWALPINDI: The district administration has constituted an 18-member managing committee of the Pakistan Red Crescent (PRC) Society Rawalpindi chapter to run affairs of the Red Crescent Hospital and its eight dispensaries.

Deputy Commissioner Dr Hassan Waqar Cheema will lead the committee while the additional deputy commissioner finance and planning, District Health Authority chief executive officer, Pakistan Red Crescent director, RCCI representative, Government College for Boys Satellite Town principal and owners of Tehzeeb Bakers, D-Watson, Sweet Palace, Rabi Centre and Bio-path Laboratory will be its members.

In a notification, the deputy commissioner said he had constituted the District Red Crescent Branch Committee in accordance with Chapter VIII of the ‘Regulation for the Management, Control and Procedure of Punjab Branch and District Branches’.

A newly-appointed member requesting not to be named said the committee was formed to improve eight dispensaries of the society in Rawalpindi, Murree, Kotli Sattian, Kallar Syedan and others.

He said the District Health Authority had recently taken over the building of PRC Society near Holy Family Hospital and established Local Hepatitis Elimination and Prevention Programme (LHEAP) and gynae outdoor-patients department.

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2023