Qaiser said classes would be held in Gaju Khan Medical College from January 1, 2014. PHOTO: FILE
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.
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@abdullah you are rite charsadda distt has always been ignored by successive governments of ANP and PPP sherpao. Time for PTI to strike some developmental projects for charsadda to increase it's party mandate there as well, because charsadda has immense manpower resource to grow by large.
Charsadda District are completely ignored by Every government Even ANP And Aftab Khan who ruled the province 3 3 times and there HQ are present in charsadda. I think there is no need of establishing Medical colleges in Every district. There are already one medical university in peshawar ,Two medical colleges (one for female students),Bacha Khan medical college in mardan, saidu medical college in swat , gomal medical college in D I khan , Bannu medical college in Bannu, Ayub medical college in abbot Abad etc are working in public sector of KP. There are need of establishing colleges in other profession like Engineering , Agriculture , Social Sciences ,information technology etc or improving the Quality and stranded of existing Educational institutes. It is interesting that Students of KP different secondry boards are getting up to 1000/1050 numbers in FSC exams and failing to pass Entry tests of medical colleges, Engineering and Agriculture universities etc which are present in KP. One can't imagine to Pass NUST , Agha Khan ,Army institutes, LUMS, King Edward medical college QuidiAzam university etc entry tests.