Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak visited various hospitals in the city including LRH and HMC Peshawar where he enquired after the health of the under-treatment injured of the recent heavy rains that played havoc in Peshawar previous night. On this occasion, he was accompanied by Provincial Minister for Information & HE Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani and other higher authorities.
During the visit, the chief minister met all the injured and enquired about their health and assured that till their recovery and discharging from the hospital they will be provided free treatment while financial assistance will also be given to the affected. For this purpose, he also issued necessary directives to the Chief Executives and Medical Superintendents (MS) of both the hospitals and warned that no stone should be left unturned in provision of treatment facilities to the injured. He said that previous night storm and heavy rains were natural calamity that hit Peshawar again.
Pervez Khattak asked the hospitals authorities that besides injured of the rain-storm incidents, shortage of funds would never be tolerated as excuse in provision of better treatment facilities to other patients as well. He said the concept of holidays at health centers for medical or administrative staff should go for good now. He said that the Senior Minister Health Shahram Tarrakai, Secretary Health and other high ups of health department will pay regular and surprise visits of hospitals and health centers not only in Peshawar but all over the province to ensure the availability staff and health facilities there so that people could get relief and they could not face any difficulty in proper treatment of their patients. He further directed to display boards in front of every gate and ward of the hospitals inscribed with the details of free treatment facilities and the procedure of benefiting from it by the patients and their attendants.
The Chief Minister said that PTI led coalition government has laid solid foundation for good governance wherein every institution is bound to deliver to the masses in excellent manner including the hospitals especially emergency health cover. He said that he quickly reacted on this natural calamity previous night and contracted the divisional and district administration for immediate relief activities to avoid casualties as well as shift the injured to the hospitals in time. Similarly he at same time asked the divisional and district administration to arrange for adequate funds for treatment, medicines and compensation to the victims' families. He asked Provincial Minister Information Mushtaq Ghani to rush to hospitals to supervise the situation and keep him (CM) abreast with moment by moment progress while he also remained in constant liaison with high authorities on relief works.
Pervez Khattak, while declaring the second catastrophic wave of rain storm in Peshawar and its suburbs as natural calamity has announced compensation for the families of the deceased and injured of the hurricanes. The Chief Minister on listening about the hurricane in Peshawar summoned all medical staff for duty. He announced a compensation of Rs 0.3 million for the family of each killed, Rs 50000/- for each injured, and financial assistance of Rs 0.1 million for any person disabled in the incident under natural calamity package. He also expressed profound grief and sorrow over the loss of human lives and properties in the incident.
Pervez Khattak expressed heartiest sympathies with the affected families and prayed for eternal peace of departed souls and early recovery of the injured. He also expressed concern over prolong power break down in the city and directed WAPDA authorities for repairing and durable stability of power supply system and speedy redressal of public complaints in this regard.
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