IHRA forms teams to monitor health set-ups in capital
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The Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) has decided to start regular monitoring of health establishments in the federal capital to ensure the provision of standard medical services for citizens.
According to an official of the authority, substandard medical setups will not be allowed to continue working in the federal capital. He said that after completing its documentation work on these standards, health establishments will be examined on a regular basis to know whether or not these standards were being complied with.
He said that after observing these standards, licences will be issued to the eligible setups to operate in the federal capital. The official said that these steps aimed at ensuring that healthcare services to the citizens were on a par with international standards.
"We are ready to perform our role of policing to protect citizens from fake health. We have field teams who conduct visits to monitor the standards of health facilities in the federal capital besides completing routine assessments,” he said
The official said that the main objective of IHRA was to regulate healthcare services and establishments in the federal capital. The official warned private laboratories against poor disposal of infectious waste in the federal capital.
"Action will be taken against those laboratories which were not following proper procedures for disposal of waste right from handling, collecting, transporting, discarding, and marking till incineration to avoid minimal exposure to others.
Infectious waste produced at the labs and hospitals is a great threat to the public health and the environment and causes nosocomial infections if waste is not managed well," he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2022.