[5] The provincial 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 districts and fill vacant posts and make prompt purchases of medicines, equipments etc.
[6][7] The programme offers grant incentives to doctors and other healthcare staff by attracting them to serve in the rural and remote areas of the province.
[8] In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), the management of primary healthcare infrastructure was transferred to the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) from 2007 to 2016.
[9][10][11][12] In 2016 a legal and administrative disagreement arose between the PTI lead Provincial Government and the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP).