JPMC may get more funds

Decision taken while meeting JPMC Executive Director Professor Shahid at the CM House

KARACHI:

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has decided to increase the number of beds and the size of the annual budget of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) from the next financial year.

He took this decision while meeting JPMC Executive Director Professor Shahid at the CM House. The executive director of the free healthcare facility, briefing the chief minister, said that the JPMC was a 2,208 bedded facility which needed to be enhanced.

To this, the chief minister directed him to increase the bed capacity of the hospital for which his government would provide necessary funds in the next financial year. Discussing the financial issues of the hospital, the chief minister decided to double the budget of the JPMC from the next financial year.

He also vowed to enhance the medicine budget of the hospital. Shah directed Professor Shahid Rasool to outsource the security and janitorial services of the hospital. Discussing the robotic surgery system installed at JPMC, the chief minister urged the executive director to strengthen it further and extend the facility through satellite centres in district headquarter hospitals of the province.

On the request of the JPMC executive director, the chief minister increased the house job slots of the institute by another 100 seats. Shah directed the JPMC administration to hold departmental promotion committee (DPC) meetings for all the cadres and promote the eligible candidates.

The chief minister also approved the hiring of more professors, associates, and assistant professors to meet the requirement of the Jinnah Sindh Medical University facility.