Two Japan-funded health centres inaugurated in Nizampur

NOWSHERA: Two Japan-funded mother and child health centres in Nizampur were inaugurated on Thursday.
Japan’s ambassador to Pakistan, Hiroshi Inomata, was the chief guest on the occasion. Strict security was put in place for his visit to the area.
The Mother and Child centres in Kahi and Darwazgai villages in Nizampur have been constructed at the cost of Rs11.5 million.
Speaking on the occasion, the Japanese ambassador said his country had launched development projects in all parts of Pakistan. He added that promotion of the health sector was the top priority of his country.
Hiroshi Inomata said the health centres were gift from the people of Japan, adding that these centres were established in the areas where ratio of pregnancy- related complication was high.
The Japanese ambassador later visited the Jalozai Camp where he was briefed about the situation at the camp for the internally displaced persons.
He was informed that the camp had housed thousands of Afghan refugees for three decades. He was that 55,000 internally displaced families had also been accommodated at the camp due to militancy and military operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The ambassador visited the health centre at the camp and enquired after the patients. He also visited the Human Response Facilitation Centre at the camp which had been constructed with assistance from the Japanese government.