Public-sector hospitals: Nurses to visit Turkey for training

Move comes as part of health sector reforms in Punjab

LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to send nurses from different public-sector hospitals to Turkey for training as part of its reformation of the health sector.

The decision was taken during a meeting between a delegation from the Turkish Ministry of Health and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other office bearers of the health department.

Adviser on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique while addressing the meeting said the Turkish health service was providing state-of-the-art facility to its people.

“In order to provide basic health facility to grassroots level, the health ministry has decided to send a group of nurses to Turkey where they will get training in nursing schools,” he announced.

“As the Turkish health ministry have successfully experienced different models of health in far-flung rural areas which include mobile health service, home team regarding bed-ridden patients, health tourism, emergency health services, home healthcare services, early disease warning system and immunisation of children as well as diagnostic facilities in hospital,” he added.

“After the nurses get trained, we will further send delegations of doctors and other paramedical staff in different phrases,” he added.

Earlier, the Turkish delegation visited different health facilities in Punjab and medical colleges during their stay.

The delegation will submit a study and comparison report of Punjab’s and Turkey’s health system to CM Shehbaz Sharif, while recommendations and observations of the delegation would be evaluated technically and financially.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2016.