PESHAWAR
\nCaretaker Chief Minister Justice (R) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and Faqir Abad area of Peshawar. During his visit to LRH, the chief minister met with patients and enquired about their health.
\nHe also met with the attendants of patients and enquired about the treatment facilities being provided to patients in the hospital. The chief minister was accompanied by caretaker provincial ministers Engineer Ahmed Jan, Engineer Amir Nadeem Durrani, Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, Commissioner Peshawar Muhammad Zubair and CCPO Peshawar Syed Ashfaq Anwar.
\nSyed Arshad Hussain Shah visited different sections of the hospital including General OPD, Surgical Wards and Medical Units where he listened to the complaints of the attendants of patients and directed the hospital administration to immediately redress their complaints.
\nHe further directed them to ensure uninterrupted availability of medicines and said that all available resources should be utilized for the better treatment of patients.
\nLater on, the chief minister during his visit to Faqir Abad, expressed grave concerns over the poor cleanliness maintenance of Faqir Abad canal, and ordered an inquiry against the responsible ones.
\nImmediately after the visit, the chief minister convened an emergency meeting of the relevant authorities to discuss the matter.
\nHe expressed dissatisfaction over the poor condition of canals and directed the concerned provincial minister and administrative secretary to personally monitor the maintenance activities of the canals adding that all the ministers and administrative secretaries will carry out field visits in order to monitor the matters and activities related to their respective departments\/ sectors.
\nHe made it clear that any negligence or mismanagement to this effect would not be tolerated.
\n\u201cI will also review the performance of provincial departments by visiting the field regularly\u201d, he remarked and added that all the administrative secretaries should fix all such issues beforehand; if any negligence or deficiency is found during his visit, the concerned administrative secretary will be responsible for it. He also directed that quality of work in maintenance and development works of canals be ensured in all respects; Syed Arshad Hussain Shah maintained and made it clear that inefficiency or corrupt practice on the part of any official would not be tolerated under any circumstances adding that CCTV cameras be installed at offices of the irrigation department.
\nKP-CM also directed the quarters concerned to immediately initiate work on the digitization of the irrigation department. The chief minister directed the officials of the irrigation department to work out a comprehensive desilting plan for canals across the province further directing them to make an effective arrangement in order to dispose of the waste at suitable places in a timely manner during the desilting of the canal to avoid environmental pollution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (R) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and Faqir Abad area of Peshawar. During his visit to LRH, the chief minister met with patients and enquired about their health. He also met with the attendants of patients and enquired about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n