Peshawar: On the directives of Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Sohail Afridi, the provincial government has formally launched the ‘Performance Agreement Framework’ under the ‘CM Good Governance Roadmap’ to strengthen public service delivery, transparency, and institutional accountability.
In the first phase, performance agreements have been finalized with the Health Department and the Anti-Polio Programme.
Under the framework agreement, the Health Department has set a target of recruiting and deploying 500 new doctors across the province, while ensuring the availability of doctors in all Basic Health Units (BHUs) and Rural Health Centers (RHCs).
The framework also includes the provision of 24-hour maternity services in 250 Basic and Rural Health Centers, along with the construction, upgradation, and rehabilitation of maternal and child emergency centers, said a news release issued here.
Officials said that 62 district-level secondary hospitals would be handed over to professional institutions for improved management and service delivery.
For polio eradication efforts, a tripartite agreement had been signed among the Health Department, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), and the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).
The agreement also set a target of deploying an additional 150 doctors in southern districts and reducing the number of children missed during polio campaigns to below 10,000.
Authorities have also set a target of eliminating the presence of the polio-virus in environmental samples collected from Peshawar, Bannu, and North Waziristan.
Additionally, EPI aimed to keep more than 97 percent of vaccination centers operational and increase the complete immunization coverage rate among children to 85 percent.