Medical intervention: Motherly care

Maternal care facilities are providing treatment to K-P flood survivors.

PESHAWAR: About 1,500 women received maternal care in the flood ravaged areas of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the past few months under a joint project by Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) and United Nations Population Fund.

MNCH provincial chief Dr Zaman Khattak said on Thursday that women and children were treated under the programme in Charsadda, Kohistan, Shangla, Swat, Dera Ismail Khan and Lower Dir districts.

Khattak said that in Shangla, family planning facilities and free pre and post-natal treatment were being provided at Alpuri district headquarters hospital, rural health centres at Puran, Karora, Chakisar and Dasu.

In Kohistan the facilities were being provided in Ronila, Pattan and Shatyal; in Swat at Matta, Madyan and Darmari; in Charsadda at Shabqadar area, in Dera Ismail Khan at Kot Jai; in Lower Dir at Gulabad.

He said the labour room, medicines and laboratories were provided in the first phase of the three-phase programme, for which 11 persons were deputed at each centre, including two lady and a male doctor, lady health visitors, laboratory technicians, drivers and others.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 14^th, 2011.