Lady Reading Hospital is one of the oldest and largest Teaching Institutes of the country which provide state of Art, excellent curative and preventive services to the ailing humanity of the Frontier Province. It is also called loye (big) huspatal (hospital) and Gernali Huspatal. It was established in 1924 and it is just 200 meters away in the south of Grand Trunk Road, behind the famous historical Qila Balahisar. Famous Masjid Muhabat Khan, Ander Shehr bazaar, Qissa Khawani bazaar and Khyber bazaar is across the road of LRH. LRH is just outside historical wall in the jurisdiction of cantonment board. The anecdote of the hospital of its coming into being is that His Excellency Mr. Lord Reading, viceroy of the subcontinent from 1921 to 1926.