MoU signed for paedratic emergency facility

Children’s Hospital to have burns unit, says minister

LAHORE:

Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Thursday hailed an accord between the University of Child Health Sciences and Islamic Aid UK for improving the paediatric emergency department at a cost of Rs100 million rupees.

As per a memorandum signed in this regard, work will be done on digitalisation in the Children's Hospital.

The minister said during a media briefing on the occasion that the Children's Hospital in Lahore was the largest government hospital in Asia in terms of treatment of children and the educational institution was the world's first child health university.

Special attention is being given to research in the medical institutions of Punjab. She said the university had established nursing colleges.

Children's cardiac surgeries and bone marrow transplant are also being done in the hospital.

Punjab's first burns unit for children is going to be built in the same hospital at a cost of Rs400 million.

Replying to questions, she said a neonatology unit would be fully functional by December 31, while Emergency Department of the Mother and Child Block in Gangaram Hospital would open in a week. The block will be fully operational by March.

The minister said the block will be a referral centre and a telemedicine department will also be established there.

Work on mother and child hospitals in Lahore, Attock, Mianwali, Layyah and DG Khan is in final stages. Similar hospitals are also being built in Bahawalnagar, Multan and Rajanpur.

Dr Rashid also said on the occasion that millions of people were participating daily in the PT's march.

She said an FIR of the attack on former prime minister Imran Khan should be lodged against at the individuals mentioned by him.

The minister said the country was facing economic as well as political crises.

She said former PM Nawaz Sharif had been undergoing treatment abroad for the past two and a half years.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2022.