PESHAWAR To ensure the provision of quality health services to the masses, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government allocated Rs 6467.00 million for health sector in the budget for the fiscal year 2011-12, which was unveiled here Saturday. In his budgetary speech, Finance Minister Humayun Khan said Rs 6467.000 million was allocated for 122 projects out of which 88 were ongoing and 34 were new. He said the government intended to achieve these targets in health sector during the FY 2011-12; District Headquarters Hospital Kohat would be upgraded to category-A, upgradation of eight BHUs to RHCs would be completed and two category-C hospitals would be completed and 40.000 TB and 800 poor cancer patients would be provided with free treatment while a fountain house would be constructed in Peshawar. With 20 per cent increase, the Lady Reading Hospital has been granted Rs 1152.949 million, Khyber Teaching Hospital Rs 797.353 million, Khyber Medical College Rs 313.982 million, Khyber College of Dentistry Rs 146.889 million, Hayatabad Medical Complex Rs 543.096 million, Postgraduate Medical Institute Rs 606.040 million, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, Rs 504.059 million, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, Rs 362.082 million, Institute of Kidney Diseases Peshawar Rs 137.596 million, Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar Rs 14.606 million and Khyber Girls Medical College Peshawar Rs 4761.175 million. Grant-in-aid has also been proposed with Rs 100 million for Endowment Fund, Rs 100 million for provision of emergency drugs, Rs 200 million for creation of posts in the projects schemes due for completion during the year, Rs 40 million for Cardiology unit, LRH Peshawar, Rs 20 million for Cardiovascular unit LRH, Rs 2 million for Fatimid Foundation, Rs 20 million for paraplegic centre Hayatabad Peshawar, Rs 20 million for Health Regulatory Authority and Rs 15 million for Frontier Foundation Peshawar during the fiscal year 2011-12. The document said the government allocated 50 kanal land free of cost for establishment of the Shoukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Peshawar and the land had already been transferred as a trust and a sum of Rs 7 million had also been sanctioned as grant-in-aid. It said the health department focussed on achieving health related targets set in MDG for which a strategy had been approved including several programmes. A project worth Rs 100 million was also approved and implemented to strengthen the drug control administration and the project would help in improving the efficiency of drug inspectors of health department to ensure the proper quality of drugs sold to the community.