ISLAMABAD: More than 50 percent health units in Islamabad do not have qualified staff to run their affairs and recruitment process is yet underway to fill the vacant posts.
There are three rural health centers, 14 basis health units and one dispensaries functioning in the Capital but residents in rural belt are troubled not only by insufficient health facilities but also the prevalent poor conditions at the existing basic health units.
More than 420,000 people living in the suburban areas depend for health care on these health units, all managed by the Islamabad Capital Territory Administration.
These units have been functioning for decades but this modest medical infrastructure has run into challenges like competent staff and financial woes, the official source in Islamabad Capital Territory Administration said.
At present, he said, these are offering facilities like primary health care, vaccination against 10 EPI Target diseases, mother & child healthcare services, outpatient department services, free provision of medicines, medical lab, diagnostic facilities, TB, Control, Dengue Fever prevention, surveillance & response and others community oriented programme.
