KP healthcare services expand via MERF and KPHF partnership
Under a PPP model, KP healthcare services now run through the Medical Emergency Resilience Foundation, and the Wana district hospital's performance score has more than doubled.
MERF and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Foundation (KPHF) run several public hospitals in KP under a public-private partnership (PPP) model.
DHQ Hospital Wana's performance score rose from 37 percent to between 80 and 84 percent, according to the KP government's Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU).
Wana serves an average of 780 patients daily, and specialists handle 93 percent of outpatient consultations.
DHQ Hospital Mishti Mela in Orakzai and GGH Nishterabad in Peshawar are also cited as examples.
MERF says the model aims to make care more affordable, expand specialist services and improve quality.