K & P

‘Never claimed to have fixed everything’

The provincial health minister sought to defend the performance of his ministry over the past five years

Our Correspondent May 12, 2018

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PESHAWAR: After a top health official of the provincial government admitted before the top jurist of the country that their hospitals were not even good enough to ‘treat a dog’, the provincial health minister sought to defend the performance of his ministry over the past five years.

“We never said that we have fixed everything,” a defensive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Shahram Khan Tarakai said in a news conference at the Chief Minister House in Peshawar on Friday.

“Improvements have been brought in everything after we stepped in,” he maintained.

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He was referring to a hearing at the Peshawar registry of the Supreme Court the other day where the chairman of board of the Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) in Abbottabad appeared before Chief Justice Saqib Nisar and stated that the operation theaters at the government-run instruction are in such dismal condition that he would not conduct operate on a dog there.

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Tarakai, during his news conference, was visibly agitated over the reprimand that answer had drawn from the CJP.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 12^th, 2018.