Ashfaq Yusufzai

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KP govt wants teaching hospitals to ensure transparent utilisation of funds

3 weeks ago | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Umair Javed

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has asked medical teaching institutions (MTIs) to provide their account details as part of the policy to ensure spending of funds transparently. A notification issued to all MTIs directed them to send soft and hard copies regarding their receipts and expenditure to health department in the light of cabinet’s decisions. It said that the order was circulated to all 10 MTIs to conduct financial audit of the institutions.
Govt orders payment of Rs1 billion dues to private organisations managing its hospitals

3 weeks ago | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Abbas Nasir

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has ordered the payment of over Rs1 billion arrears to the private organisations running outsourced government hospitals in the province in order to prevent the disruption of health services to patients, say health officials.
KP govt to resume free organ transplants, cochlear implants

1 month ago | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Abbas Nasir

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to resume free organ transplants and cochlear implants on the Sehat Card Plus programme, disclose officials. They said the free transplants were stopped by the caretaker government in early 2023 citing lack of funds as the reason. The officials, however, said the PTI, which had pioneered the free health insurance initiative of SCP in the province, decided to resume it after resuming power.
KP health dept plans combined BoG for Institute of Child Health and Fountain House

Jan 19, 2025 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has intended to form a combined board of governors to manage the Khyber Institute of Child Health Peshawar and the recently-established Fountain House Hayatabad (Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences Hospital) to expedite the operations of both entities. However, the KICH and Fountain House want separate boards for themselves, citing their distinct specialties–children’s health and psychiatry-as the reason.
‘Interference’ by PTI leaders baffles head of Mardan hospital board

Jan 15, 2025 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Zahid Hussain

PESHAWAR: The leaders of ruling party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, have been interfering in the affairs of Mardan Medical Complex and trying to run the health facility according to their wishes, sources say. However, they said, the architects of Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act were trying to continue the reform process and improve patients’ care in the hospitals of the province.
KP govt pours Rs100bn into free healthcare since 2016

Jan 12, 2025 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has spent around Rs100 billion on the provision of free healthcare under the Sehat Card Plus programme to 3.89 million patients since its launch in 2016. Beneficiaries of the health insurance scheme included 2.09 million (53.07pc) women, 1.79 million (46.03pc) men and 17 transgender persons, according to an official report.
Over 100,000 KP children remain unvaccinated in last polio drive

Jan 7, 2025 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR: The reluctance of parents to polio vaccination continues to haunt the future of their scions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as 111,118 children remained unvaccinated in the December campaign up from 95,834 in October-November drive.
Parents’ reluctance to immunise children causing deaths in KP: experts

Dec 9, 2024 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR: The reluctance of parents to immunise their children has been causing deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and diphtheria as both the ailments have caused 78 deaths in the province this year so far, according to health experts. They said that non-vaccination caused 48 deaths due to measles and 30 from diphtheria in the province in the current year, prompting health department to launch province-wide vaccination campaign later that month.
No let-up in high dengue incidence as onset of winter delayed

Dec 8, 2024 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir

PESHAWAR: With the start of winter delayed due to climatic changes, dengue hemorrhagic fever continues to spread in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with 19 new cases reported on Saturday. The virus is also in circulation due to frequent travel by people across regions, according to officials. They said the dengue cases reported in the province this year had risen to 4,167.
35 Peshawar doctors repatriated to original places of duty

Dec 1, 2024 | dawn.com | Ashfaq Yusufzai |Farieha Aziz

PESHAWAR: Health department has repatriated 35 doctors from Khyber Institute of Child Health as part of the ongoing rationalisation drive to depute staffers to their places of duty and improve patients’ care. “To begin with, we have repatriated the services of 35 doctors, who have been posted in Khyber Institute of Child Health (KICH), which is yet to go operational.