Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak announced a 500 bedded full-fledged Gynae obstetrics hospital in Peshawar in an international Conference on Gynae obstetrics in a local Hotel in Peshawar Friday. Chairman PTI Imran Khan, Minister Health Shahram Khan Tarakai and others also addressed the conference.
Addressing the conference, Pervez Khattak said that an elite dominated system could not deliver for the hapless people adding that Political interference in the past destroyed public sector institutions and therefore the entire system collapsed. His government he added depoliticized and revamped institutions thus strengthened the system of governance through these public sector institutions.
The Chief Minister said that when he started revamping the public sector institutions, making them autonomous and empowered them to make decisions for the efficient treatment of the poor, the system was resisted, that proved that the doctors were reluctant to accept responsibility but when they started feeling the better impact of the change they accepted it. He said his government stopped the whimsical decision making because PTI was voted for a change particularly by the youth. The youth was dead sure that the politicised system did not have the capacity to deliver. This was a challenge that PTI accepted for bringing reforms and removing all obstruction, he added. His government he added had a record legislation to discourage corruption, loot and plunder, favouritism and therefore upheld the rule of law and encouraged merit based decision making.
He said RTI was meant to make the government machinery accountable. The RTI law made mandatory services time bound and the conflict of interest barred the rulers and bureaucrats to misuse power and authority. Pervez Khattak said his government introduced Sehat Insaf Card providing free treatment up to 0.5 million to almost 1.8 million families that constituted 51% of the total population of the province.