PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak Friday announced construction of a state-of-the-art 500 bedded full-fledged Gynae Obstetrics hospital in Peshawar to cater to the need of the increasing load of patients.
He made the announcement here at an international Conference on Gynae obstetrics. Chairman PTI Imran Khan, Minister Health Shahram Khan Tarakai and other addressed the conference.
The KP government, he said, introduced various reforms health sector, increased the salaries of doctors and others staff and brought them at par with the doctors in the developed countries.
Our concerns was to ensure efficient healthcare to all areas of the province, he added.
Pervez Khattak said we introduced Sehat Insaf Card providing free treatment up to 500,000 to almost 1,800,000 families that constituted 51% of the total population of the province.
He said that there was a mindset, and because of that certain people did not work and they were not accountable to anybody therefore the institutions collapsed.
He said his government gives autonomy, reformed the institutions, rendered them apolitical and introduced a system of reward and punishment.
He said that power and authority should be used for the public welfare and his government was open to suggestions that could further improve the delivery.
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.
We depoliticized and revamped institutions thus strengthened the system of governance through these public sector institutions, he told.
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.
A record legislation to discourage corruption, loot and plunder, favoritism has been done 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.
He said that it was strange that there are nations which did not have the resources for development but still they are at the forward lines of their development but unfortunately we have all the resources but we are at the bottom.
This he attributed to the leadership crisis adding that when he took over, the public run hospitals were mismanaged, the doctors were reluctant to take their responsibilities.
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