KHYBER
Residents of Loy-Shelman, the remote and bordering area of Landi Kotal district Khyber demanded of the concerned authorities to forthwith issue funds to complete construction of Rural Health Center (RHC)suspended for the last one and half year.
Village council chairman Muhammad, Yaseen, councilor Muhammad Riaz Malik Meeram Khan and others lamented that with their hectic efforts, the lonely civil dispensary was upgraded to RHC and construction work on the project including wards, rooms and Outdoor Patients Departments (OPDs) was started on it.
However, they added the development work was halted for the last one and half year due to lack of funds while quoting the contractor and said approximately 70% work was done and left incomplete.
The locals of Loy-Shelman blamed that approximately 22 million rupees, a share of total funds allocated for the building of RHC, had been shifted to another project somewhere in the province that was unfair to them.
Since the creation of the country they faced hardships and because of the dearth of health facilities locally, they took their patients twenty miles away to headquarter hospital, Landi Kotal for medical treatment, they remarked.
The health highup said that when the RHC was handed over to the department, they would deploy six medical officers and other paramedical staff to treat the people of the area.
They urged the government to release funds for the completion of structuring of RHC so that they could avail facilities of curing at their door steps.
