Deteriorating healthcare: Opposition demands new hospitals in Punjab

LAHORE: Opposition benches demanded of the Punjab government to construct more hospitals in the province claiming no hospital had been set up for the past 25 years while the existing hospitals lack capacity to accommodate the increasing number of patients.

The demand was made by the Opposition leader Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed through a resolution he submitted in Punjab Assembly.

In his resolution, he maintained that the health sector was suffering gigantic problems, claiming not even a single new hospital was constructed in the last 25 years while the population has greatly surged.

He said the existing hospitals lacked equipment and space to cater for the needs of growing population.

He said poor patients were seen lying on pavements of hospitals while women gave birth to children on roads.

He said four patients were seen lying on one bed in hospitals which was highly embarrassing for them.

He said the hospitals seemed overcrowded when the patients from other districts reached Lahore’s hospitals for medical treatment.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2017.