Integrated healthcare plan for AJK

An integrated plan has been inked by the AJK government to extend latest medical facilities to the ailing humanity across Azad Jammu and Kashmir particularly in remote and far-flung areas of the liberated territory, official sources said.
"The phased programme-based plan, would benefit both urban and rural areas population including the dwellers of the remote terrain, of the quick medicare at their doorsteps", the sources told APP here on Monday. An attractive portion of public welfare development funds is being allocated in the new fiscal year (2007-08) AJK budget to be announced soon, it said.
The sources continued that the state government has fixed the priorities to ensure full provision of health care facilities to the people throughout Azad Kashmir especially in the quake-hit zone. They said that the wide-range plan would also ensure the provision of quick medical aid to the ailing population in the far-flung and backward areas side by side other parts of the liberated territory.
The plan includes face lifting and furnishing of all district headquarter hospitals, basic health units and rural health centred under the phased programme.
The sources further said that the plan also involved the establishment of latest cardiology and dialysis centres in Bhimbher, Sudanoti, Bagh and Rawalakot with the assistance of various Britain-based non-governmental organisation running by the Kashmiri expatriates inhibiting in the United Kingdom, he added.
Various UK-based NGO's with the co-ordination of the local philanthropists have already expressed their desire for the emergence of these cardiology and dialysis centres in the above mentioned areas.
The sources said that latest cardiology and dialysis centres, fully equipped with over Rs 40 million equipment and surgical instruments, have already been establishment in Mirpur with the co-operation of the local philanthropists.
They said that the state-run Paramedical School Mirpur has been made self-supported financially. The sources revealed that the doctors and paramedical staff in AJK were being provided with exceptional facilities comprising the attractive salaries, due promotions and other benefits first ever in the history of Azad Kashmir to ensure their performance up to the expectations of the patients.