MTI Ordinance 2019 not privatisation of public sector hospitals: PM Imran

Premier stresses the ordinance is to enable improved and modern management of public sector hospitals

Prime Minister Imran Khan. PHOTO: PTI

ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Thursday that the Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions Ordinance 2019 should not be termed as privatisation but as part of a reform plan for the public sector hospitals in the country.

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The premier clarified the move in a tweet after the ordinance, drafted on the pattern of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) MTI Act, was promulgated on September 4.

The Punjab Governor Usman Buzdar had signed it earlier this week with the approval of the prime minister.

“The MTI Act/Ordinance is to enable improved and modern management of public sector hospitals,” stressed Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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