Regularisation of lady health workers in Punjab would definitely contribute towards improving health indicators.
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has taken a positive step towards improving maternal and child health by passing the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Authority Bill 2014. Now, 48,000 lady health workers and 1,947 health supervisors have been made permanent employees and are in a better position to ensure provision of basic health facilities, especially to the underprivileged mothers and children of the province.
To combat the situation, promising initiatives as taken by the Punjab government are much-needed. It can be anticipated that the regularisation of lady health workers in Punjab would definitely contribute towards improving health indicators of the province and of the country as a whole.
Amina Sarwar
Published in The Express Tribune, March 27th, 2014.
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