Diagnostic vans inaugurated

Labourers to be provided free treatment facilities

LAHORE: The country’s economic growth can be improved only through safeguarding industrial workers from health hazard, said Provincial Minister for Primary and Secondary Health Khawaja Imran Nazir.



He was speaking while inaugurating the diagnostic vans for industrial workers in the city. The vans were launched with the cooperation of Mercy Corps International at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industries late Tuesday night.



The minister said that Punjab TB Control Programme has introduced mobile diagnostic vans for chest screening of industrial workers. These diagnostic vans would visit industrial zones for the check-ups of labourers, he said. Adding that they would be provided free treatment facilities, Nazir said that hundreds of more mobile health units were being purchased for providing treatment facilities to the patients at their doorstep.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2017.