The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department is in the process of developing clusters of health facilities across the province for the treatment of patients in own areas.
According to a local media report, “a strong patient referral system was on the cards covering basic health units, rural health centres, tehsil and district headquarters hospitals at the district level for providing care to patients on their doorstep”.
It was also reported that the patients bypassing the referral system won’t get treatment at government facilities.
It was further reported by the Health Department Director-General Dr Arshad Khan that “this exercise being done as part of formulating the province’s first-ever health policy was meant to upgrade services at local health outlets so the patients didn’t visit tertiary hospitals in cities”.
The DG was quoted in the local media report saying, “The department had decided to delegate administrative and financial powers to the local hospitals to speed up their work and the people receive interrupted services,” adding that “the anti-measles campaign went smoothly as no incident of side-effects or adverse reaction of vaccination had not been reported”.
The upcoming health policy would set goals to enforce the government’s policy through field activities.
