PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has approached the chief minister`s secretariat to seek orders for the healthcare commission to produce the performance audit report of the capital`s three medical teaching institutions for the chief minister`s examination.

In a letter addressed to the chief minister`s principal secretary, a copy of which is available with Dawn, the health secretary noted that under Section 7(2) of the Medical Teaching Institutions Act, 2015, the government would periodically evaluate the performance of MTIs against the set targets particularly related to the efficiency, effectiveness and equity with attendant reward and discipline measures.

He added that the enactment of the MTI Act, 2015, was coupled with generous allocation of funds valuing billions of rupees to four MTIs in Peshawar and Abbottabad.

The health secretary said the government had timely responded to the requests of the MTIs for further allocations to help them stand on their own feet in the `nascent period` and get absolute administrative autonomy.

He said the task to do the performance audit of Peshawar`s MTIs, including Lady Reading Hospital, Hayatabad Medical Complex and Khyber Teaching Hospital, was given to Islamabad-based Shifa International Trust, which had just submitted the audit report to the healthcare commission.

The secretary said the auditors checked the three MTIs for leadership, patient safety, patient and family rights, assessment of patients, patient care, anesthesia and surgical care, medication management, quality improvement and safety, infection control and governance leadership and direction but found them all to be performing badly against all those indicators.

He however said the HMC fared well against the leadership indictor showing the hospital`s top management was `dynamic and involved`. Bureau Report