KP govt approves Rs4.9 billion for 16 new colleges
Planning and Development Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday approved construction of 16 new colleges with an estimated cost of Rs4.9 billions.
Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in its meeting also approved RS450.8 million (45.8 Crores) to overcome shortage of teaching staff in schools and colleges of the merged districts. The meeting also approved construction of Girls Degree College at All Qila Maidan in Lower Dir.
The meeting also approved construction of a girls degree college at All Qila Maidan in Lower Dir district.
Agreement for improving health services
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday for the launching of an integrated maternal, newborn, child health, and immunization pilot project.
The MoU was signed by Peshawar Medical College (PMC), KP Health Department, Trust for Vaccines and Immunizations (TVI), Prime Foundation (PF), Aga Khan University, Karachi and the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Canada.
The purposes behind the project are to improve the MNCH practices and services, particularly in the coronavirus context including routine childhood immunization, improved breastfeeding practices, hand washing promotion, best possible sanitary practices, and optimal diarrhoea management, to enhance community engagement and knowledge to improve care-seeking behavior and health behaviors, to create a replaceable model of private health sector engagement that can be adopted by the government for the long-term sustainability of the interventions and to assess the feasibility of adopting an electronic birth and immunization registry.