Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Sports, Culture, Museums and Youth Affairs Mahmood Khan, on Sunday, said that provincial government was making all out efforts to provide free medical facilities to the poor including staff, medicines and machinery to all hospitals of the province in this regard.
He expressed these views while talking to the people on the occasion of the inauguration of the up-gradation of Basic Health Unit (BHU), Darmai, tehsil Matta, district Swat.
The project will cost approximately of Rs 100 million.
Tehsil Nazim Abdullah, Naib Nazim Mohammad Hakim Khan, district, tehsil councilors and number of local notables were also present on the occasion.
Mahmood Khan said that the provincial government was taking positive steps towards the provision of all kind of facilities to the people of far-flung areas, which would redress the sense of deprivation from the neglected areas.
The provincial minister said that during last four years, the government had completed different development schemes worth Rs 4.5 billion in tehsil Matta, which included the installation of 22 tube-wells for the provision of clean drinking water at Chaktil Barabro, Solta Road, construction of flood protection walls, Bagh Dheri Irrigation Channel, Civil Channel Choprial and Matta to Fazil Banda Road respectively.
The completion of these projects, he said would help curtail the level of sense of deprivation from the people ignored in the past and alleviate the living standards in the area.
He said that in the general elections of 2018, the people of KP would once again vote for the PTI.
The provincial minister said that the economy of the province was improving and a new era of the investment from other countries would soon usher in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which would generate vast employment opportunities for the youth.
He said that the purpose of the PTI led provincial government was the abolition of social evils from the province as per Islamic education and in this regard, they were getting success phase wise.
President PTI Malakand Region Mahmood Khan said that today, no politician could influence any institution and for this reason, a formal system was evolving in which every person was equal under law and everyone was treated on merit.
He said that the shortage of the teachers had been overcome and their presence has been ensured.
Due to these efforts by KP government, confidence of people was reposed in the state, he added.