New facilitation centre opened at KTH
Peshawar
February 10, 2021
PESHAWAR: A new facilitation centre and a counter were inaugurated at the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) to facilitate patients registered under Sehat Sahulat Card programme.
Dean KMC Prof Dr Mahmud Aurangzeb along with Hospital Director Prof Dr Rooh-ul-Muqim, Medical Director Prof Dr Amer Azhar and Chairman IBP Dr Muhammad Siraj inaugurated the facility. The facilitation centre has a counter, pharmacy and accounts section. The account section will ensure that bills sent to state life are not delayed.
MTI KTH has introduced a new mechanism which is beneficial for the patients, their attendants and the hospital. In the facilitation center the patient will get registered and after registration, the patient or the family will not have to come again to the counter and wait in line for medication.
KTH director axed
PESHAWAR:
The suspended director, among two other senior officials, of the largest teaching hospital in the provincial capital, have been held responsible for the shortage of oxygen at the facility earlier in the month resulting in the death of six novel coronavirus (Covid-19) patients.
This was disclosed in an inquiry report prepared by a high-powered inquiry committee of the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH). Based on the recommendations of the report, the hospital’s board took action. The chairman of the hospital’s board of governors (BoG), Dr Nadeem Khawar, along with its inquiry members, then submitted their report to the chief minister and the health secretary.