Developmental projects: Medical college announced for Swabi
Bacha Khan Medical Complex to be upgraded from category B to A.
Qaiser said classes would be held in Gaju Khan Medical College from January 1, 2014. PHOTO: FILE
SWABI:
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Minister for Health Shaukat Ali Yousafzai on Friday announced a medical college called Gaju Khan Medical College will be established in Shah Mansoor area of Swabi.
In his visit to Bacha Khan Medical Complex, the health minister announced the facility will be upgraded from category B to category A while Gaju Khan Medical College would be established on the land adjacent to the complex.
Yousafzai said strict action will be taken against medical staff and doctors who send patients and attendants to buy medicines from pharmacies not located within the complex, adding all patients should be provided with medicines from the hospital itself.
K-P Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, who accompanied the health minister during the visit, told Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters that developing the district and K-P will take time. However, he added the people had given PTI a mandate and the party would fulfil all their promises.
Qaiser said the government had announced Rs500 million for the construction of Gaju Medical College, and Rs300 million each for upgrading Bacha Khan Medical Complex and Civil Hospital, Topi, while Rs1.5 billion would be utilised to finish construction work at Swabi Women’s University.
Qaiser said classes would be held in Gaju Khan Medical College from January 1, 2014, while classes in Swat Women’s University will commence from September 2013.
He added these steps were not a favour to the people of Swabi; in fact “it’s the right of the people of Swabi.” Qaiser claimed the PTI government would strive hard to compensate the region for the 65 years that its people had been deprived of developmental projects.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2013.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Minister for Health Shaukat Ali Yousafzai on Friday announced a medical college called Gaju Khan Medical College will be established in Shah Mansoor area of Swabi.
In his visit to Bacha Khan Medical Complex, the health minister announced the facility will be upgraded from category B to category A while Gaju Khan Medical College would be established on the land adjacent to the complex.
Yousafzai said strict action will be taken against medical staff and doctors who send patients and attendants to buy medicines from pharmacies not located within the complex, adding all patients should be provided with medicines from the hospital itself.
K-P Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, who accompanied the health minister during the visit, told Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters that developing the district and K-P will take time. However, he added the people had given PTI a mandate and the party would fulfil all their promises.
Qaiser said the government had announced Rs500 million for the construction of Gaju Medical College, and Rs300 million each for upgrading Bacha Khan Medical Complex and Civil Hospital, Topi, while Rs1.5 billion would be utilised to finish construction work at Swabi Women’s University.
Qaiser said classes would be held in Gaju Khan Medical College from January 1, 2014, while classes in Swat Women’s University will commence from September 2013.
He added these steps were not a favour to the people of Swabi; in fact “it’s the right of the people of Swabi.” Qaiser claimed the PTI government would strive hard to compensate the region for the 65 years that its people had been deprived of developmental projects.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2013.