World Health Organization had been requested to carry out mapping of the health facilities in camps set up for internally displaced persons that would give a clear picture about the number of doctors, health workers and non-governmental organizations providing help in different camps.

There are five different organizations involved in provision of health facilities to the IDPs in the Jalozai camp in Nowshera and three organizations are present in the Sheikh Shehzad camp in Mardan.

Government had decided to make operational the Shahmansoor Medical Complex in Swabi for treatment of the IDPs living in the Shahmansoor camp. The hospital had been built one year ago, but it is yet to be made operational due to a row over appointments between district and provincial governments.

The health secretary is likely to request the chief minister to open it (hospital) as soon as possible and shift pediatricians, gynecologists and surgeons from the District Headquarters Hospital, Swabi, to serve as referral facility for the inmates of Shahmansoor and Yar Hussain camps.

They said they had enough medicines as only the WHO had provided 101 emergency health kits, each of which could cater to the needs of 6,000 patients a month.

The health department, in collaboration with the WHO, was also establishing diarrhoea treatment centres in Mardan and Swabi in the wake of the hot season. The main problem facing the department was shortage of women doctors, they said. The health department had asked the Khyber Teaching Hospital to provide women doctors to be deputed in the camps.

Gynecologists from the Hayatabad Medical Complex had already been visiting Mardan camps for one week as there were many pregnanat ladies in the camps. An amount of Rs17million had been given to the affected districts to provide free treatment to the IDPs.