CM for health professionals’ security bill

Says security would be provided to hospitals, doctors and paramedical staff

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Friday directed the authorities concerned to present the Health Professionals Security Bill along with relevant matters of legislation in the next cabinet meeting.

He issued these directives while presiding over a meeting of the cabinet committee on law and order at the CM Office to review progress made in the case of vandalism at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and measures taken for the hospital's functioning.

It was decided that legislation would be made to provide security to doctors, paramedical staff and hospitals.

Buzdar, addressing the meeting, said security would be provided to hospitals, doctors and paramedical staff, adding that no one would be allowed to torture doctors, paramedical staff and patients in the hospitals. The chief minister directed to take all necessary measures to make the PIC emergency functional till night as patients were facing problems due to its closure. Its earliest opening was the top priority, he asserted.  

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th, 2019.