USAID hands over eight emergency stations to KP

As an important initiative to improve health emergency response to road traffic accidents in the province, 8 number of Satellite Rescue Stations have been handed over to the provincial government under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Reconstruction Program (KPRP) funded by USAID.
The handing over ceremony to this effect was held here at Chief Minister’s House Peshawar on Tuesday, with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sardar Ali Amin Khan Gandapur as a chief guest.
Provincial minister for health Qasim Ali Shah, Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, administrative secretaries of concerned departments, US Consul General in Peshawar Shante Moore and other relevant authorities attended the ceremony. On this occasion, 8 Satellite Rescue Stations and 14 Ambulances were formally handed over to the provincial government.
The Satellite Rescue Stations connected with Wireless Equipment and other state of the art medical and technical facilities including fully functional Mini Operation Theatre, would be placed strategically throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at major highways, that include: Shahbaz Khel, Lakki Marwat (Indus Highway), Speena More, Karak (Indus Highway), Charsadda and Karnal Sher Khan Interchanges at M-1 Motorway, Haripur Interchange (Hazara Motorway), Katlang Interchange (Swat Motorway), near Besham at Karakorum Highway and Lowari Tunnel at Upper Dir side (N-45 Highway. Similarly, 4 Ambulances with ventilator facilities would be provided to Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital, whereas other 10 ambulances would be provided to different districts of Malakand Division including Shangla, Chitral, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Buner and Malakand.
Addressing the ceremony on the occasion, the chief minister lauded the efforts of USAID for improving health emergency services in the province, adding that Satellite Rescue Stations would ensure an immediate and effective response to road accidents, thereby reducing loss to precious human life and disabilities.
He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been affected badly in the war against terrorism, adding that people from across the sectors have rendered huge sacrifices in the struggle against militancy in this region. Despite the difficult financial situation, the provincial government is going all out to rehabilitate the damaged infrastructure and to provide livelihood opportunities to the people of war affected and backward areas of the province, he said.