500-bed teaching hospital planned for Sialkot

Punjab health minister presides over a meeting at Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Department

LAHORE: Provincial Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid said that a 500-bed teaching hospital would be constructed in Sialkot.

She was presiding over a meeting at Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Department on Wednesday. The meeting also reviewed progress on upgradation and other matters relating to DHQ Hospital Sialkot. Chief Planning Officer Abdul Haq apprised the meeting about the medical facilities being provided in the hospital.

The minister said that the new teaching hospital to be constructed in addition to upgradation of DHQ Hospital Sialkot. She added that the provision of the best healthcare facilities to the masses was the important agenda of the government.

She added mother and child treatment facilities would be arranged and parking tower will also be constructed in the teaching hospital which would consist of 500 beds, she added.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31^st, 2019.