Caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa former justice Dost Muhammad has said the health sector upgrade in the province revolutionize the healthcare improvement adding that the reforms supported by incentives to the doctors and staff enhanced their motivational level bringing dynamism to the institution. He admitted that regulatory framework is the key to quality services in health sector.
He was presiding over a high level meeting at Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar. Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Shahab Ali Shah and Head of SSU Sahibzada Saeed and others attended the meeting. Secretary Health Abid Majeed briefed the chief minister about the health sector reforms and initiatives for the efficient health delivery in all public sector institutions.
The chief minister directed for the efficient utilization of resources in all sectors and health sector is one of the key areas needed investment and that investment is the actual saving that maximizes productivity. The illness of bread earners brings different kinds of burden to the society and the family system at large.
Dost Muhammad said population explosion and the less focus on the breast feeding are the two threatening areas harmful to the national growth. For breast feeding the dedicated ward should have an LED carrying the messages of professional gynaecologists for persuasion and telling the advantages of breast feeding.
He stressed for implementation strategies with more focus on prevention of diseases of different nature. The society needed to be sensitized towards health related issues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Interim CM said investment in health is understandably is one of the best investments in a society. We have to go for out of the box solution in the health sector that included dealing and preventing different kind of diseases in the province included the creation of awareness that will ease out the work considerably in the KP health sector.
The Health department should have a complaint redressal mechanism within the given hospitals and the problems registered with these complaints cells should be resolved within 15 days. Dost Muhammad noted that it is appreciable that the health department had large scale professional improvement brought about by different incentives and packages but these efforts should be commensurate with the level of delivery by professional in the health department.
He directed to put sanitation and drinking water facilities in all health sector projects in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adding that divisional level health care institutions should be strengthened enabling the locals to get efficient healthcare within their districts and should not come to Peshawar for such facilities.