Daily Times
June 30, 2021
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government decided to construct a women and children hospital in South Waziristan with an estimated cost of Rs 200 million to provide better healthcare services to patients.
Under Accelerated Implementation Programme (AIP) of 10 years tribal decades strategy (TDS-2020-2030), officials in KP Health Department told APP on Tuesday that a state-of-the art hospital would be constructed in premises of district headquarters hospital Wana in South Waziristan for which Rs 20 million were allocated in Annual Development Programme (ADP 2021-22). A paraplegic centre would be established in merged areas with an estimated cost of Rs 500 million to help patients of spinal cord injuries besides physical, occupational, vocational and psychosocial rehabilitation services for which Rs 440 million earmarked in FY 2021-22. Besides construction of residential flats for health staff at secondary level hospitals in merged tribal districts, the government would
Peshawar
May 27, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Medical University (KMU) Peshawar and KP Health Department in collaboration have established a large-scale Mass Vaccination Centre for COVID-19.
Health Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, KMU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Zia-ul-Haq and 102 Brigade Commander Brigadier Muddassir inaugurated the facility. Director-General Health Services Dr. Muhammad Niaz, District Health Officer Peshawar, Dr Azmat, KMU Senate Member Zia-ul-Haq Sarhadi Focal Person, Mass Vaccination Centre Dr Khalid Rehman, 59 Punjab Regiment Commandant Lt. Col. Jawad Jamil and other officials were there.
The centre has been set up in collaboration with KMU and Health Department in which there is scope for vaccination of up to two thousand people daily.
Three hospitals burdened with Covid patients
The K-P Health Department reported 584 new coronavirus cases throughout the province over the last 24 hours
PESHAWAR:
Three major hospitals of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have been overburdened with coronavirus patients, a source in the provincial health department confirmed on Monday.
However, 88 beds designated for Covid patients at Lady Reading Hospital, Khyber Teaching Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex remain vacant.
798 beds were allotted by the hospital administration for patients suffering with the prevailing virus out of which 681 are currently occupied. 66 patients have been placed on ventilators in the three largest hospitals of the province.
According to the LRH spokesperson, 424 Covid patients are currently being treated there while 33 patients are admitted in the intensive care unit.
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