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PESHAWAR
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health and Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra Thursday said that all medical facilities for corona patients at Peshawar Institute of Cardiology will be made operational soon while barriers to recruitment of medical personnel will be removed. The Provincial Minister for Health and Finance Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra expressed these views while presiding over a review meeting on setting up of Corona Center at the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology building.
Health Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, Special Health Secretary Mian Adil Iqbal, Director General Health Services Dr Niaz Muhammad, ADG Dr Jamal Nasir, Pakistan Army officers and other officials also attended the meeting. On the occasion, health officials gave a briefing on the establishment of Corona Center at PIC and reviewed the progress.
Pakistan Army officials briefed the meeting on the provision of medical equipment and supplies by the NDMA. It was informed in the meeting that in the first phase 50 beds are being arranged in PIC in which 16 beds will be provided with a ventilator facility while 34 High Dependency Unit beds will be provided.
It was informed in the meeting that the first phase would be completed in the next one week. Other facilities and deployment of staff at PIC Corona Center were also discussed in the meeting. The meeting was informed that orders have been issued for the deployment of medical personnel and their training and orientation will be supervised by medical experts at Hayatabad Medical Complex, which will be completed next week.
It was also mentioned in the meeting that medical personnel recruited under the LOCUM scheme would also be posted in PIC. Health and Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra said on the occasion that all obstacles in the recruitment of medical staff should be removed.
He directed the concerned authorities to expedite the recruitment and deployment of health personnel. He welcomed the fact that our capacity against Corona is growing day by day. Taimur Jhagra said that capacity building measures would have far-reaching consequences in the future.
