The People's Primary Healthcare Initiative KP (PPHI), also known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Programme, is a programme with the objective of developing primary level healthcare facilities to benefit patients at grassroots level, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan.

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The People's Primary Healthcare Initiative in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and elsewhere in Pakistan were created following a World Bank report prepared in light of the World Health Organization Health Model, seeking a shift from curative to preventive and promotive health care. The government awarded contracts to the non-governmental organisations to manage BHUs by improving presence of staff, equipment and medicines. The organisations act as consultants, as they receive the total budget of the

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and fill vacant posts and make prompt purchases of medicines, equipments etc. to insure that patients get treatment. The programme offers grant incentives to

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and other healthcare staff by attracting them to serve in the rural and remote areas of the province. In

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(K-P), the management of primary healthcare infrastructure was transferred to the

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(SRSP) from 2007 to 2016. There are over 625 basic health units (BHU's) across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). In 2016 a legal and administrative disagreement arose between the

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lead Provincial Government and the

(SRSP). It was decided that the programme would devolve back to the administrative control of the Health Department.

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PPHI Official Webpage
Health in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Medical and health organisations based in Pakistan {{Pakistan-gov-stub

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