Punjab to get five hospitals

LAHORE: Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid has said that the provincial government is going to set up five state-of-the-art mother and child hospitals in different districts. She stated this while addressing the launching ceremony of National Nutrition Survey, where a health survey was announced for all government educational institutions of the province. She said that the survey was very important for coping with deficiency of nutrition among children of Pakistan. The provincial minister further said that the survey was an important step towards eradicating nutritional deficiencies among children and youth of the country in near future. She expressed that the health sector was among the top priorities of the prime minister and the Punjab chief minister. She explained that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government wanted to provide the best healthcare facilities to the people.  “The provision of best healthcare facilities for ensuring health of mother and child was necessary for healthy future of the current generation.”  

Published in The Express Tribune, July 28^th, 2019.