Caretaker CM directs to ensure implementation on dengue action plan

• He directed authorities to improve services delivery in health sector.
• Caretaker CM termed health as a priority sector of his government.
• Matters related to sehat card program was also discussed.

PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Azam Khan has directed the Health Department to ensure strict implementation of the proposed dengue action plan in order to prevent the possible outbreak of dengue virus during current season adding that all the relevant departments and entities would have to fulfill their responsibilities in an effective manner for the purpose.

He further directed them to take concrete measures to contain Leishmania and other infections deceases as well. He urged upon authorities concerned to pay special attention to improve services delivery in health sector in the merged areas so as to ensure provision of healthcare facilities at their door steps.

Similarly, the Chief Minister directed for pragmatic steps to improve service delivery in the health services delivery outlets of peripheries of the settled districts with the aim to ensure treatment facilities to people at local level and minimise patients flow to tertiary healthcare facilities.

He was chairing a meeting of health department held here. The chair was briefed in details about the institutional reforms, administrative affairs, implementation of development projects, status of available funds and other related matters of health department.

The Caretaker Chief Minister has termed health as a priority sector of his government and directed the finance department to ensure the timely provision of required funds for the purchase of emergency medicines and other essential procurements in hospitals. He also directed them to ensure timely completion of due for completion projects in the health sector.

He further directed the concerned quarters to complete the ongoing inquiry regarding payments to hospitals working under the public private partnership and made it clear that the process should not affect services delivery in those hospitals and patients should not face any inconvenience.

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Matters related to sehat card program and Medical Teaching Institutions were also discussed in the meeting, however it was decided that a separate meeting would be convened to further streamline matters of MTIs and sihat card scheme. The Chief Minister has termed Sehat Card Program as a good initiative of public welfare and said that the entire process of health card would be made transparent.