PESHAWAR
An important meeting held here on Wednesday with the Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair, formally approved free treatment for children suffering with cochlear disorders, commonly known as hearing loss or auditory problems among children.
The treatment will incur a total cost of Rs 250 million and will be carried out in three phases as approved by the Chief Minister. In the first phase, 38 children belonging to flood hit districts of the province Charsadda, DI Khan, Shangla and Swat districts will be prioritized whereas in the second phase, families having three or more children with cochlear diseases will be provided with free treatment.
The remaining cases will be treated in the third phase
Mahmood Khan maintained that the cognitive learning abilities are of paramount importance among children and the provincial government will go all out in helping children suffering from these diseases.
According to details, a total of 127 requests have been received through “Khpal Wazir Ala Cell” and other welfare organizations from 25 districts of the province.
Nine cases have also been received from the merged districts including District Aurakzai, Bajaur, Kurram and Khyber.
The Chief Minister directed that families should be informed phase wise in order to ensure prior preparedness adding that youngest children should be prioritized in order to ensure that their cognitive learning abilities are restored on priority basis.
The Chief Minister said that hearing ability is directly linked with cognitive learning and any disorder directly effects the overall learning process among children. He added that immediate treatment of children suffering from this disease is of paramount importance in order to enable them to live a complete, healthy and conscious life.
Mr Khan added that that extension of Sehat Insaf Card to cent percent population of the province is undoubtedly an unprecedented effort of his government under which millions of people across the province have been provided with free treatment facilities so far.
Principal Secretary to CM Amjad Ali Khan, administrative secretaries of Health & Finance Departments and other officials attended the meeting.
