Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government decides to outsource management of eight more Secondary healthcare Hospitals
Chitral Times Report
PESHAWAR: As an important step to ensure access to quality healthcare services to the local communities in the far flung areas of the province, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to outsource management of eight more secondary healthcare hospitals of the province through Public Private Partnership model initially for a period of five years. These secondary care hospitals include District Headquarter Hospital Wana South Waziristan, DHQ Hospital Kohistan, Category-D Hospital Bazar Zakhakhel Khyber, Category-D Hospital Razmak North Waziristan, Category-D Hospital Alizai Kurrum, Category-D Hospital Pasht
Bajaur, Category-D Hospital Mamund Bajaur and Category-D Hospital Nawagai Bajaur.
In order to outsource the management of the aforesaid hospitals, a contract signing ceremony was held here at Chief Minister House on Monday with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan as chief guest. Provincial Minister for Health Taimur Salim Jhagra, Special Assistant to CM for Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Secretary Health Tahir Orakzai, Director General Health Services Dr. Niaz Muhammad, Managing Director Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Foundation and other high ups were also present on the occasion.
The high ups of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Foundation, Health Department and Partner organizations formally signed agreements for the outsourcing of the management of aforesaid eight secondary healthcare hospitals in addition to contract renewal of the management of two hospitals already outsourced including DHQ Hospital Mashtimela Orakzai and Category-D Hospital Shulam South Waziristan. It is pertinent to mention here that keeping in view the significant improvement of services delivery in the already outsourced health facilities, the government has decided to outsource the management of the above mentioned healthcare facilities. Through the Public Private Partnership model, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has already ensured all time availability of specialist-doctors, nurses and paramedics in the healthcare units of far flung areas providing quality healthcare services round the clock.
Through the Public Private Partnership, the newly outsourced healthcare units would also be operationalized 24/7 and all the facilities including doctors, medical equipment and medicines would be available in these hospitals.
Talking on the occasion, the chief minister has termed the outsourcing of the management of these hospitals as an another important step to provide healthcare facilities to the local people at their door steps adding that the step would be helpful to improve the healthcare services in the hospitals as per the aspirations and needs of general public. He said that this step would prove to be a milestone to improve the service delivery of these healthcare units upto the required level. He said that the incumbent government was not only committed to provide quality healthcare services to people of far flung areas at their door steps but was also taking result-oriented steps under a well-devised plan for the purpose.
