PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister Health Shahram Khan Tarakai said that the provincial Government was providing modern health care facilities to the hospitals for the benefit of poor masses and approved Rs 51 million for Khyber Medical College Peshawar.
Minister Shahram Khan Tarakai along with Secretary Health Mohammad Abid Majeed Friday visited Khyber Medical College (KMC) Peshawar and inspected Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Department.
The Minister Health, on the occasion, approved a number of recommendations for further activating the postmortem department of KMC.
The Minister Health on the occasion announced Rs 51 million for purchasing equipments for Toxicology Lab, provision of special package to doctors of KMC doing postmortems of the bodies and recruiting the required staff in DNA Lab and Toxicology Lab of the Khyber Medical College Peshawar.
Principal KMC, Professor Dr Ejaz Hassan Khan and Professor Dr Hakim Khan Afridi In charge Department of Forensic Medicine, Toxicology and DNA Profiling briefed the Minister and Secretary Health about the performance as well as the difficulties of Forensic Medicine Department.
They informed that during the year 2013, the department had done 1127 postmortems, 1201 postmortems in the year 2014 and 966 postmortems in 2015.
They said the department had a great load of work but due to shortage of staff as well as some equipment, the doctors had to face difficulties in fulfilling their obligations.
The Minister Health while talking on the occasion said the KP Government was providing modern health care facilities to the hospitals for the benefit of poor masses in the province.
He said the provision of these facilities would enable the doctors to perform their duties with devotion.
He said the department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, KMC would be provided all the required facilities while the required staff would also be provided.
Shahram Khan Tarakai said that postmortem facility in Divisional Headquarter Hospitalswould be provided under postmortem expert doctors thus proper reporting to the courts as well as provision of justice would become possible.
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