PESHAWAR, March 20: The Khyber Pakhtunkwa Health Department, in view of the bulk of litigation cases of the department pending in various courts, has decided in principle to hire the services of a proper law firm to pursue and speedily dispose of such cases. A proposal to this effect will soon be moved for the approval of the competent authority. This was decided in a meeting of the high-ups of health department held in Peshawar with senior minister for Health Shahram Tarakai in the Chair.
Besides the incoming secretary health M. Abid Majeed and Director General Health Services Dr. Pervez Kamal the meeting was also attended by all the project directors of the programmes/projects running under the department and other high-ups of the department. The first formal meeting of the department soon after the new Secretary took charge of his office, discussed threadbare various issues impeding the smooth flow of the operational matters of the department and better service delivery to the masses and a number of important decisions were taken to resolve such issues.
The chair directed the concerned quarters to display all the data of the Social Health Protection Initiatives of the provincial government on websites for the consumption of the public and thus ensure utmost transparency in the scheme.-PR