PESHAWAR, Oct 30: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai on Wednesday said the Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf-led government would take all measures to promote medical education in the province along the pattern of global education system.
`Our government has accorded top priority to promotion of education, especially medical one to produce competent doctors and improve patient care in the province,` he said during the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected cabinet of the Khyber Girls Medical College Teachers` Association here.
On the occasion, the minister also inaugurated the closed-circuit television camera system and student learning resource centre.
Principal of the college Professor Abid Hussain andKGMCTA President Professor Anjum Zia Munawar, General Secretary Professor Usman Khattak and Vice President Professor Arshad Pervez highlighted the problems facing the college. They asked the government to redress hardships faced by teachers and students.
The college, according to the teachers, had been widely applauded at the national level and the government`s support will further boost its performance.
They asked the government to for upgradation of their posts, announcement of teachers` quota in admission, providing them with accommodation and protection.
The minister said the government had been working on reform programme under which medical colleges and hospitals were being developed to cater to the increas-ing number of students and patients in the province.
Mr Yousafzai said the government will fulfill all requirements of medical teachers and clinical doctors so they could work with devotion and benefit the patients.
He said the government had already allocated Rs1billion to free treatment of the critically-ill injured patients and more measures were in pipelines that will restore the public confidence on the state-owned hospitals.
The minister said the government was taking steps to close door of corruption and those who had siphoned off public money will be taken to task.
He said efforts were also underway to install ultrasound services at the rural hospitals to facilitate the patients and avoid medical complications.
