Children suffering from hearing disorders will get free treatment in KP
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has approved free treatment programme for children suffering from hearing disorders in different parts of the province.
A statement said that chief minister directed immediate provision of free treatment services to children suffering from hearing disorders. It added that hearing abilities required attention to be restored among the affected children to enable them to start a healthy life.
It said that the government received 127 applications through “Khpal Wazir Ala Cell” and other welfare organisations from 25 districts of the province for treatment of such children. It added that nine applications were received from the newly-merged districts including, Orakzai, Bajaur, Kurram and Khyber.
The statement said that the treatment programme would cost Rs250 million. The programme will be implemented in three phases. The first phase will cover 38 children in Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla and Swat. In the second phase, families having three or more children with cochlear diseases will be provided with free treatment. The remaining cases will be treated in the third phase of the progarmme.
Children suffering from hearing disorders will get free treatment in KP
The chief minister directed the officials concerned that families should be informed about the free health initiative to ensure prior preparedness. He added that the youngest children should be prioritised to ensure that their cognitive learning abilities were restored on priority basis.
He said that hearing ability was directly linked with cognitive learning and any disorder directly affected the overall learning process among children. He added that immediate treatment of children suffering from the disease was of paramount importance to enable them to live a complete, healthy and normal life.
Mr. Khan said that the provincial government was not only aware of the problems faced by people in the health sector but had also taken multiple steps to provide quality and free healthcare to them.
He said that extension of Sehat Card Plus programme to the entire province was an unprecedented effort of the government under which millions of people received cashless treatment facilities.
“Apart from this, significant resources are being spent on revamping the hospitals and healthcare centres in the province to provide the best treatment facilities to people at their doorsteps,” he said.
