300 new family welfare centers to be set up: Neelam

She said that the department was appointing trained staff at these centers, especially in remote areas so that infants and mothers could be saved from fatal diseases.

Under the programme, she said, provision of necessary medicine and other facilities were being provided to the women population of the province

She said Prime Minister’s basic healthcare programme initiated by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto would be further strengthened so that majority of the population could benefit from these centers. 

She said, LHWs and LHVs have to play vital role in health education of the rural folk and they were the backbone of healthcare system.